Tutta la città canta
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Tutta la città canta is a 1945
Italian
comedy film
directed by Riccardo Freda
. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival
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1945 in film
The year 1945 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring a ghost named Casper.* With Rossellini's Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins....
Italian
Cinema of Italy
The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...
comedy film
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
directed by Riccardo Freda
Riccardo Freda
Riccardo Freda was an Egyptian-born Italian film director. Best known for his horror and thriller movies, Freda had no great love for the horror films he was assigned, but rather favored the epic sword and sandal pictures...
. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival
67th Venice International Film Festival
The 67th annual Venice Film Festival held in Venice, Italy, took place from September 1 to September 11, 2010. American film director and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino was head of the Jury. John Woo was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement prior to the start of the Festival...
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Cast
- Nino TarantoNino TarantoNino Taranto was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 83 films between 1924 and 1971.He was born and died in Naples, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Nonna Felicità * L'ha fatto una signora...
- Il maestro elementare - Nanda Primavera - La prima zia
- Maria Pia Arcangeli - La seconda zia
- Vivi GioiVivi GioiVivi Gioi was an Italian actress.Her professional last name Diesca was the anagram of De Sica, the famous actor and director with whom she was in love...
- La soubrette - Natalino OttoNatalino OttoNatalino Otto, stage name of Natale Codognotto was an Italian singer. He started the swing genre in Italy.-Early years:Natalino Otto was born at Cogoleto, province of Genoa, in northern Italy....
- Il cantante - Giuseppe AddobbatiGiuseppe AddobbatiGiuseppe Addobbati was an Italian film actor known for his roles in Spaghetti Western and action films in the 1960s and 1970s. He was often billed as John MacDouglas for films released to an American audience....
- Il direttore - Gianni Bonos
- Luigi BonosLuigi BonosLuigi Bonos was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 72 films between 1945 and 1992. He was born in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Tutta la città canta * Damon and Pythias * And God Said to Cain...
- (as Gigi Bonos) - Vittorio Bonos
- Angelo Calabrese
- Piero Carnabuci
- Fedele Gentile
- Leonilde Montesi
- Erminio Nazzaro
- Guido Riccioli
- Umberto Silvestri