Before Him All Rome Trembled

1946 Italian film
  • Gherardo Gherardi
  • Gaspare Cataldo
  • Carmine Gallone
Starring
  • Anna Magnani
  • Tito Gobbi
  • Hans Hinrich
  • Gino Sinimberghi
CinematographyAnchise BrizziEdited byNiccolò LazzariMusic byRenzo Rossellini
Production
company
Excelsa Film
Distributed byMinerva Film
Release date
  • 2 October 1946 (1946-10-02)
Running time
98 minutesCountryItalyLanguageItalian

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. Ada 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

  • Anna Magnani as Ada
  • Tito Gobbi as Marco
  • Hans Hinrich as German Officer
  • Gino Sinimberghi as Frank, the British soldier
  • Guido Notari as Doctor
  • Tino Scotti as Mechanic
  • Guglielmo Sinaz as Stagehand
  • Joop van Hulzen as Webb
  • Giuseppe Varni as Stagehand
  • Carlo Duse as Police Officer
  • Edda Albertini as Lena
  • Heinrich Bode as German Soldier
  • Antonio Crast
  • Giulio Neri
  • Ave Ninchi

References

  1. ^ Bayman & Rigoletto p.42

Bibliography

  • Bayman, Louis & Rigoletto, Sergio. Popular Italian Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
  • Before Him All Rome Trembled at IMDb
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