Casta Diva (1935 film)
Casta Diva | |
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Directed by | Carmine Gallone |
Written by | Walter Reisch Corrado Alvaro |
Produced by | Giuseppe Amato William Szekeley |
Starring | Mártha Eggerth Lamberto Picasso Gualtiero Tumiati |
Cinematography | Franz Planer Massimo Terzano |
Edited by | Fernando Tropea |
Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
Production company | Alleanza Cinematografica Italiana |
Distributed by | Generalcine |
Release dates | 14 June 1935 (France) 10 August 1935 (Italy) |
Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Casta Diva is a 1935 Italian musical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Mártha Eggerth, Lamberto Picasso and Gualtiero Tumiati.[1] The film won Best Italian Film at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival.[2] An English-language version The Divine Spark was made at the same time, also directed by Gallone and starring Eggerth.[3] Gallone remade the film in 1954 in Technicolor.[4]
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Werner Schlichting and Enrico Verdozzi. Location shooting took place around Catania in Sicily.
Plot
The film concerns Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini and his problems with his opera Norma (1831), which itself tells the passionate love story of a Gallican priestess and a Roman proconsul (governor of a province). The film is unique because it uses abstract paintings-in-motion to express the passion between the two main characters.
Cast
- Mártha Eggerth as Maddelena Fumarol
- Sandro Palmieri as Vincenzo Bellini
- Gualtiero Tumiati as Niccolò Paganini
- Lamberto Picasso as Fumaroli
- Achille Majeroni as Gioacchino Rossini
- Lina Marengo as a guest
- Giulio Donadio as Felice Romani
- Ennio Cerlesi as Ernesto Tosi
- Vasco Creti as Rettore del Conservatorio
- Bruna Dragoni as Giuditta Pasta
- Maurizio D'Ancora as Saverio Mercadante
- Cesare Bettarini as Francesco Fiorino
- Alfredo Robert as Il Re
- Gino Viotti as Maestro Zingarelli
References
External links
Casta Diva at IMDb
- 1935 films
- 1930s musical drama films
- 1930s biographical films
- Italian musical drama films
- Italian biographical drama films
- Italian films
- Italian-language films
- Films directed by Carmine Gallone
- Italian multilingual films
- Films set in 1831
- Films about composers
- Films about classical music and musicians
- Films about opera
- Italian black-and-white films
- Cultural depictions of Niccolò Paganini
- Italian historical musical films
- 1930s historical musical films
- Cultural depictions of classical musicians
- Cultural depictions of Italian men
- Films shot in Italy
- 1930s multilingual films
- 1935 drama films
- 1930s Italian film stubs
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