Cesarina Gheraldi

We the Living (1942)

Part One (Part Two was released as Addio Kira!) At 18, the beautiful and smart Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Goffredo Alessandrini
CAST:  Alida Valli  •  Rossano Brazzi  •  Fosco Giachetti  •  Emilio Cigoli

Part One (Part Two was released as Addio Kira!) At 18, the beautiful and smart Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Goffredo Alessandrini
CAST:  Alida Valli  •  Rossano Brazzi  •  Fosco Giachetti  •  Emilio Cigoli

The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn (1977)

Distressed that her wayward husband, Gianni (Alberto Lionello), forsakes her favors and seduces a series of other women, drop-dead gorgeous Gioia (Edwige Fenech) turns to handsome lothario Patrizio (Ray Lovelock) to help her get revenge. Will her enthusiastic ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luciano Martino
CAST:  Edwige Fenech  •  Alberto Lionello  •  Aldo Maccione  •  Riccardo Garrone

Distressed that her wayward husband, Gianni (Alberto Lionello), forsakes her favors and seduces a series of other women, drop-dead gorgeous Gioia (Edwige Fenech) turns to handsome lothario Patrizio (Ray Lovelock) to help her get revenge. Will her enthusiastic ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luciano Martino
CAST:  Edwige Fenech  •  Alberto Lionello  •  Aldo Maccione  •  Riccardo Garrone

Behind Closed Shutters (1951)

Sandra searches her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luigi Comencini
CAST:  Massimo Girotti  •  Eleonora Rossi Drago  •  Giulietta Masina  •  Liliana Gerace

Sandra searches her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luigi Comencini
CAST:  Massimo Girotti  •  Eleonora Rossi Drago  •  Giulietta Masina  •  Liliana Gerace

L'ultimo amante (1955)

Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Mattoli
CAST:  Amedeo Nazzari  •  May Britt  •  Nino Besozzi  •  Frank Latimore

Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Mattoli
CAST:  Amedeo Nazzari  •  May Britt  •  Nino Besozzi  •  Frank Latimore

Al piacere di rivederla (1976)

Based on the novel 'Ritratto Di Provincia In Rosso' by Paolo Levi .Mario Aldara, a Ministry of the Intenal Affairs officer and former police inspector, is sent to his native town, Bologna to investigate the alleged suicide of Cesare Bonfigli, of a powerful local ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marco Leto
CAST:  Ugo Tognazzi  •  Françoise Fabian  •  Miou-Miou  •  Alberto Lionello

Based on the novel 'Ritratto Di Provincia In Rosso' by Paolo Levi .Mario Aldara, a Ministry of the Intenal Affairs officer and former police inspector, is sent to his native town, Bologna to investigate the alleged suicide of Cesare Bonfigli, of a powerful local ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marco Leto
CAST:  Ugo Tognazzi  •  Françoise Fabian  •  Miou-Miou  •  Alberto Lionello

Italian Engagement (1964)

In this romance, a middle-aged playboy finds himself running his father's fur business after his father's death. He continues to allow his papa's mistress to run the business. The playboy's fiancee gets pregnant and he refuses to marry her. She dumps him in favor ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfredo Giannetti
CAST:  Rossano Brazzi  •  Annie Girardot  •  Tony Anthony  •  Marisa Merlini

In this romance, a middle-aged playboy finds himself running his father's fur business after his father's death. He continues to allow his papa's mistress to run the business. The playboy's fiancee gets pregnant and he refuses to marry her. She dumps him in favor ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfredo Giannetti
CAST:  Rossano Brazzi  •  Annie Girardot  •  Tony Anthony  •  Marisa Merlini

I piaceri del sabato notte (1960)

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daniele D'Anza
CAST:  Maria Perschy  •  Elsa Martinelli  •  Pierre Brice  •  Scilla Gabel

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daniele D'Anza
CAST:  Maria Perschy  •  Elsa Martinelli  •  Pierre Brice  •  Scilla Gabel

The Trojan Women (1967)

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vittorio Cottafavi
CAST:  Roldano Lupi  •  Luisa Aluigi  •  Lia Angeleri  •  Annamaria Chio

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vittorio Cottafavi
CAST:  Roldano Lupi  •  Luisa Aluigi  •  Lia Angeleri  •  Annamaria Chio

Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa (1964)

A whimsical commedia all'italiana divided into four episodes.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Massimo Mida
CAST:  Carlo Giuffrè  •  Anita Ekberg  •  Agnès Spaak  •  Yoko Tani

A whimsical commedia all'italiana divided into four episodes.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Massimo Mida
CAST:  Carlo Giuffrè  •  Anita Ekberg  •  Agnès Spaak  •  Yoko Tani

Sailors Without Stars (1949)

The story of two boys, who enrol in a navy academy for boys.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francesco De Robertis
CAST:  Antonio Gandusio  •  Cesarina Gheraldi

The story of two boys, who enrol in a navy academy for boys.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francesco De Robertis
CAST:  Antonio Gandusio  •  Cesarina Gheraldi

Stasera niente di nuovo (1942)

A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Mattoli
CAST:  Alida Valli  •  Carlo Ninchi  •  Giuditta Rissone  •  Tina Lattanzi

A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Mattoli
CAST:  Alida Valli  •  Carlo Ninchi  •  Giuditta Rissone  •  Tina Lattanzi

Lacrime di sangue (1944)

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DIRECTION:  Guido Brignone
CAST:  Neda Naldi  •  Carlo Ninchi  •  Andrea Checchi  •  Wanda Capodaglio

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DIRECTION:  Guido Brignone
CAST:  Neda Naldi  •  Carlo Ninchi  •  Andrea Checchi  •  Wanda Capodaglio

Vietato ai minorenni (1944)

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DIRECTION:  Mario Massa
CAST:  Neda Naldi  •  Paola Veneroni  •  Otello Toso  •  Beatrice Mancini

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DIRECTION:  Mario Massa
CAST:  Neda Naldi  •  Paola Veneroni  •  Otello Toso  •  Beatrice Mancini

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DIRECTION:  Nunzio Malasomma
CAST:  Amedeo Nazzari  •  Antonio Gandusio  •  Sandro Ruffini  •  Amelia Chellini

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DIRECTION:  Paolo Moffa
CAST:  Antonio Gandusio  •  Paola Borboni  •  Adriano Rimoldi  •  Roberto Bruni

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DIRECTION:  Guido Brignone
CAST:  Charles Rutherford  •  Lianella Carell  •  Arnoldo Foà  •  Natale Cirino