Malombra (1942 film)
Malombra | |
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Directed by | Mario Soldati |
Written by | Antonio Fogazzaro (novel) Mario Bonfantini Renato Castellani Ettore Maria Margadonna Mario Soldati |
Starring | Isa Miranda Andrea Checchi Irasema Dilián Gualtiero Tumiati |
Cinematography | Massimo Terzano |
Edited by | Giovanni Paolucci Gisa Radicchi Levi |
Music by | Giuseppe Rosati |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Lux Film |
Release date | 17 December 1942 |
Running time | 135 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Malombra is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Isa Miranda, Andrea Checchi and Irasema Dilián. It is based on the novel Malombra by Antonio Fogazzaro,[1] which had previously been adapted into a 1917 silent film of the same title. It was made at Cinecittà with sets designed by Gino Brosio. It was produced by Riccardo Gualino's Lux Film.
The film is a gothic melodrama, set in the castle on the edge of Lake Como during the Nineteenth century.
Cast
- Isa Miranda as Marina di Malombra
- Andrea Checchi as Corrado Silla
- Irasema Dilián as Edith Steinegge
- Gualtiero Tumiati as Il conte Cesare d'Ormengo
- Nino Crisman as Nepo Salvador
- Enzo Biliotti as Il commendator Napoleone Vezza
- Ada Dondini as Fosca Salvador
- Giacinto Molteni as Andrea Steinegge
- Corrado Racca as Padre Tosi
- Luigi Pavese as Il professore Binda
- Nando Tamberlani as Don Innocenzo
- Doretta Sestan as Fanny
- Paolo Bonecchi as Il dottor Pitour
- Elvira Bonecchi as Giovanna, la governante
- Giovanni Barrella as L'ispettore della cartiera
- Giacomo Moschini as Giorgio Mirovitch, il notaio
- Anna Huala as La governante di Fosca
Locations
The movie was shot in the Villa Pliniana, Torno (Como). (Info by the Dizionario del Turismo Cinematografico)
References
- ^ Gundle p.139
Bibliography
- Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Malombra (1942 film).
Categories:
- 1942 films
- Italian films
- Italian historical drama films
- Italian black-and-white films
- 1940s historical drama films
- Italian-language films
- Films directed by Mario Soldati
- Films based on Italian novels
- Films set in the 19th century
- Films shot at Cinecittà Studios
- Lux Film films
- 1942 drama films
- 1940s Italian film stubs