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:
Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Leonardo Benvenuti, Luigi Filippo D'Amico, 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) |
| Directing | Carmine Gallone | Director |
| Camera | Marco Scarpelli | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Niccolò Lazzari | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Maria De Matteis | Costume Design |
| Art | Beni Montresor | Set Decoration |
| Editing | Gabriella Pacho | Assistant Editor |
| Camera | Giuseppe Rotunno | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Luigi Di Giorgio | Assistant Camera |
| Crew | Joseph Nathanson | Special Effects |
| Art | Mario Garbuglia | Assistant Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Raimondo Van Riel | Makeup Artist |
| Writing | Agenore Incrocci | Screenplay |
| Writing | Furio Scarpelli | Screenplay |
| Writing | Vittorio Nino Novarese | Screenplay |
| Writing | Leonardo Benvenuti | Screenplay |
| Writing | Luigi Filippo D'Amico | Screenplay |
| Writing | Carmine Gallone | Screenplay |
| Writing | Agenore Incrocci | Story |
| Writing | Furio Scarpelli | Story |
| Writing | Vittorio Nino Novarese | Story |
| Writing | Leonardo Benvenuti | Story |
| Writing | Luigi Filippo D'Amico | Story |
| Writing | Carmine Gallone | Story |
| Sound | Renzo Rossellini | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Franco Ferrara | Conductor |
| Directing | Luigi Filippo D'Amico | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Nanni Loy | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Franco Cirino | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Carla Gervasi | Script Supervisor |
| Sound | Luigi Ricci | Music Consultant |
| Sound | Ennio Sensi | Sound |
| Art | Mario Chiari | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marisa Polidori | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Giorgio Hermann | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alberto De Rossi | Makeup Department Head |
| Costume & Make-Up | Renata Magnanti | Hairstylist |
| Production | Orazio Tassara | Production Manager |
| Production | Giorgio Riganti | Unit Manager |
| Production | Nello Meniconi | Unit Manager |
| Production | Paolo Gargano | Production Secretary |
| Production | Angelo Binarelli | Production Secretary |
| Production | Franco Riganti | Line Producer |
| Production | Gianni Hecht Lucari | Producer |
