House of Ricordi (1954)
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Director:
Carmine Gallone
Writers:
Vittorio Nino Novarese, Leonardo Benvenuti, Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Carmine Gallone.
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Roland Alexandre as Gioacchino Rossini |
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Elisa Cegani as Giuseppina Strepponi |
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Danièle Delorme as Maria |
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Gabriele Ferzetti as Giacomo Puccini |
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Renzo Giovampietro as Tito Ricordi |
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Fosco Giachetti as Giuseppe Verdi |
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Nadia Gray as Giulia Grisi |
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Roldano Lupi as Domenico Barbaja |
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Paolo Stoppa as Giovanni Ricordi |
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Vira Silenti as Marietta Ricordi |
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Myriam Bru as Luisa Lewis |
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Marcello Mastroianni as Gaetano Donizetti |
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Fausto Tozzi as Arrigo Boito |
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Micheline Presle as Virginia Marchi |
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Gustavo Serena as Il direttore di scena |
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Andrea Mongelli as Cantante |
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Aldo Ferracuti as Cantante |
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Rosetta Calavetta as Virginia Marchi |
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Juanita Satiman as Cantante |
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Ken Neale as Cantante |
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Fernando Lidonni as Cantante |
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Arturo La Porta as Cantante |
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Enrico Formichi as Cantante |
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Nelly Corradi as Cantante |
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Italo Tajo as Cantante |
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Renata Tebaldi as Cantante |
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Giulietta Simionato as Cantante |
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Gianni Poggi as Cantante |
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Giulio Neri as Cantante |
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Marineri Meli as Cantante |
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Gino Mattera as Cantante |
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Tito Gobbi as Cantante |
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Giuseppe Varni as Monti |
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Mario Del Monaco as Cantante |
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Sergio Tofano as Cesarini Sforza |
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Aldo Silvani as Il dottore di Bellini |
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Lauro Gazzolo as Carlotti |
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Memmo Carotenuto as Stuccatore |
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Julien Carette as Felix - l'oste |
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Manlio Busoni as Il sovrintendente |
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Georges Bréhat as Il brigadiere |
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Märta Torén as Isabella Colbran |
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Maurice Ronet as Vincenzo Bellini |
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Renato Malavasi as Ambrogi |
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Paola Rolando as (uncredited) |
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Giuseppe Porelli as Carlotti (uncredited) |
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Danik Patisson as (uncredited) |
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Claudio Ermelli as (uncredited) |
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Giovanni Checchi as (uncredited) |
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Mimo Billi as (uncredited) |
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Antoine Balpêtré as Dottor Fleury (uncredited) |
| Art | Beni Montresor | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Carmine Gallone | Director |
| Camera | Marco Scarpelli | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Niccolò Lazzari | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Maria De Matteis | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Raimondo Van Riel | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Giuseppe Rotunno | Camera Operator |
| Writing | Vittorio Nino Novarese | Screenplay |
| Camera | Luigi Di Giorgio | Assistant Camera |
| Writing | Leonardo Benvenuti | Screenplay |
| Art | Mario Garbuglia | Assistant Production Design |
| Writing | Luigi Filippo D'Amico | Screenplay |
| Editing | Gabriella Pacho | Assistant Editor |
| Writing | Agenore Incrocci | Screenplay |
| Crew | Joseph Nathanson | Special Effects |
| Writing | Furio Scarpelli | Screenplay |
| Writing | Carmine Gallone | Screenplay |
| Directing | Nanni Loy | First Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alberto De Rossi | Makeup Department Head |
| Writing | Leonardo Benvenuti | Story |
| Sound | Franco Ferrara | Conductor |
| Sound | Ennio Sensi | Sound |
| Production | Angelo Binarelli | Production Secretary |
| Writing | Agenore Incrocci | Story |
| Writing | Furio Scarpelli | Story |
| Production | Paolo Gargano | Production Secretary |
| Writing | Vittorio Nino Novarese | Story |
| Directing | Carla Gervasi | Script Supervisor |
| Production | Orazio Tassara | Production Manager |
| Directing | Luigi Filippo D'Amico | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Franco Cirino | First Assistant Director |
| Art | Mario Chiari | Production Design |
| Production | Franco Riganti | Line Producer |
| Sound | Luigi Ricci | Music Consultant |
| Writing | Luigi Filippo D'Amico | Story |
| Sound | Renzo Rossellini | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Renata Magnanti | Hairstylist |
| Production | Nello Meniconi | Unit Manager |
| Production | Giorgio Riganti | Unit Manager |
| Writing | Carmine Gallone | Story |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marisa Polidori | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Giorgio Hermann | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Production | Gianni Hecht Lucari | Producer |
