Villafranca (film)
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Directed by | Giovacchino Forzano |
Written by | Giovacchino Forzano Benito Mussolini (play) |
Starring | Corrado Racca Annibale Betrone Enzo Biliotti |
Cinematography | Ubaldo Arata Augusto Tiezzi Giovanni Vitrotti |
Edited by | |
Music by | |
Production company | Forzano Film |
Distributed by | Fono Roma |
Release date | 19 January 1934 |
Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Villafranca is a 1934 Italian historical drama film directed by Giovacchino Forzano and starring Corrado Racca, Annibale Betrone and Enzo Biliotti.[1] It was based on a play by Benito Mussolini, then Italian dictator, about the 1859 agreement between Napoleon III and Count Cavour which led to the Second Italian War of Independence.
The film was made at the in Turin and on location in the city, which had been the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia at the time of the film's events.
Cast[]
- Corrado Racca as Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour
- Annibale Betrone as Vittorio Emanuele II
- Enzo Biliotti as Napoleone III
- Pina Cei as principessa Clotilde di Savoia
- Giulio Donadio as Castelli
- Alberto Collo as Il canonico Gazzelli - confessore di casa Savoia
- as il marchese Virago di Vische
- as Margotti
- Felice Minotti
- Cellio Bucchi
- María Denis
- Carlo Duse
- Oreste Fares
- Mario Ferrari
- Edoardo Toniolo
References[]
- ^ Goble p. 1005
Bibliography[]
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links[]
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Categories:
- Italian-language films
- 1930s historical drama films
- Italian historical drama films
- 1934 films
- Italian films
- 1930s Italian-language films
- Films directed by Giovacchino Forzano
- Films set in the 1850s
- Films set in Turin
- Benito Mussolini
- Italian black-and-white films
- 1934 drama films
- 1930s Italian film stubs
- Cultural depictions of Napoleon III
- Films set in Sardinia