Before Him All Rome Trembled

Before Him All Rome Trembled
Directed by Carmine Gallone
Written by Gherardo Gherardi
Gaspare Cataldo
Carmine Gallone
Starring Anna Magnani
Tito Gobbi
Hans Hinrich
Gino Sinimberghi
Music by Renzo Rossellini
Cinematography Anchise Brizzi
Edited by Niccolò Lazzari
Production
company
Excelsa Film
Distributed by Minerva Film
Release date
2 October 1946
Running time
98 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

Before Him All Rome Trembled (Italian:Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma) is a 1946 Italian musical war melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Anna Magnani, Tito Gobbi and Hans Hinrich. Ado and Marco are a pair of opera singers, who moonlight working for the Italian resistance at the time of the German occupation of Rome during the Second World War. They are sheltering a British soldier with whom they make contact with the advancing Allied forces. Sylistically the film is a hybrid between filmed performances of opera, and a neorealistic resistance melodrama.[1]

The title refers to Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, which is performed during the film.

Cast

References

  1. Bayman & Rigoletto p.42

Bibliography

  • Bayman, Louis & Rigoletto, Sergio. Popular Italian Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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