Tosca (1941 film)

Tosca
Directed by Carl Koch
Jean Renoir
Written by Victorien Sardou (play)
Giuseppe Giacosa (libretto)
Luigi Illica (libretto)
Alessandro De Stefani
Carmine Gallone
Carl Koch
Jean Renoir
Luchino Visconti
Starring Imperio Argentina
Michel Simon
Rossano Brazzi
Music by Umberto Mancini
Cinematography Ubaldo Arata
Edited by Gino Betrone
Production
company
Distributed by Scalera Film
Release date
 27 January 1941
Running time
 100 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

Tosca is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Carl Koch and Jean Renoir and starring Imperio Argentina, Michel Simon and Rossano Brazzi. It is an adaptation of Victorien Sardou's play La Tosca and its subsequent opera version, Tosca, composed by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It was released in the United States as The Story of Tosca.[1]

It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome with location shooting also taking place around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gustav Abel.[2]

Jean Renoir was originally hired as the film's director, and was encouraged to make the film by the French government as part of an effort to encourage Italy to remain neutral in the Second World War. However he left Rome following Italy's entry into the war and the film was completed by the German director Carl Koch.[3]

In 1943 it was released in Spain, where Imperio Argentina was a major star, by CIFESA

Main cast

References

  1. ↑ Durgnat, Raymond (1974). Jean Renoir, pp. 213–215. University of California Press. ISBN 0520022831
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ Faulkner, Christopher (2014). The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir, p. 122. Princeton University Press
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