Tosca (1956 film)

Tosca
Directed by	Carmine Gallone
Written by	Giuseppe Giacosa (libretto) Luigi Illica (libretto) Victorien Sardou (play)
Produced by	Giulio Fiaschi Carmine Gallone Guido Luzzatto Manlio Morelli
Starring	Franca Duval Franco Corelli Vito De Taranto Afro Poli
Cinematography	Giuseppe Rotunno
Edited by	Niccolò Lazzari
Music by	Giacomo Puccini (opera)
Production company	Produzione Gallone
Distributed by	CEI Incom
Release date	26 August 1956 (1956-08-26)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Tosca is a 1956 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Franca Duval, Afro Poli and Franco Corelli. It is based on the 1900 opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, which was adapted from the 1887 play by Victorien Sardou. It was made at Cinecittà in Rome.

Cast

• Franca Duval as Floria Tosca
• Franco Corelli as Mario Cavaradossi
• Afro Poli as Baron Scarpia, chief of police
• Vito De Taranto as The Sacristan
• Fernando Alfieri as Spoletta, police official
• Antonio Sacchetti as Cesare Angelotti
• Aldo Corelli as Sciarrone, a gendarme
• Dino Conti as The Jailkeeper
• Maria Caniglia as Tosca (singing voice)
• Giangiacomo Guelfi as Scarpia (singing voice)

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• Tosca (1956) at IMDb