Giuseppe Verdi (film)

Giuseppe Verdi is a 1938 Italian biographical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Fosco Giachetti, Gaby Morlay and Germana Paolieri. The film portrays the life of the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). The casting of Giachetti as Verdi was intended to emphasise the composer's patriotism, as he had recently played patriotic roles in films such as The White Squadron.^[1] The film was made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film is also known by the alternative title The Life of Giuseppe Verdi.

Main cast

• Fosco Giachetti as Giuseppe Verdi
• Gaby Morlay as Giuseppina Strepponi
• Germana Paolieri as Margherita Barezzi
• Camillo Pilotto as Antonio Barezzi
• Cesco Baseggio as Papà Verdi
• Maria Jacobini as Luigia Uttini, madre di Verdi
• Maria Cebotari as Teresina Stolz
• Febo Mari as Marelli, il direttore della Scala di Milano
• Carlo Duse as Temistocle Solera
• Eugenio Duse as L'impressario Massini
• Enrico Glori as Il maestro Mariani
• Clara Padoa as La contessa Maffei
• Achille Majeroni as Il maestro Basili
• Carlo Tamberlani as Demalde
• Augusto Di Giovanni as Antonio Ghislanzoni
• Gustavo Serena as Salvatore Cammarano
• Guido Celano as Francesco Maria Piave
• Henri Rollan as Victor Hugo
• Lamberto Picasso as Gaetano Donizetti
• Gabriel Gabrio as Honoré de Balzac
• Pierre Brasseur as Alexandre Dumas figlio

References

1. ↑ Landy p.141-142

Bibliography

• Landy, Marcia. The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943. SUNY Press, 1998.

External links

• Giuseppe Verdi on IMDb