Aristide Garbini
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 09, 1890
Deathday: February 03, 1950
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Four Steps in the Clouds
1942-12-24
Four Steps in the Clouds
Overview: A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-12-24
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City of Pain
1949-03-04
City of Pain
Overview: The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Yugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that Communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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The Rape of the Sabine
1945-11-21
The Rape of the Sabine
Overview: Ernesto is the teacher of the village, he is married and he is dominated by his wife. He has the passion of the theatre and he has written a drama in verse named "Il ratto delle Sabine". Unfortunately he has only an admirer and she is their servant Rosina. When the touring company of Prof. Tromboni arrives in the village, Ernesto decides to let them perform his play, though anonymously. So the day arrives and the theatre is sadly empty. But when the news that the author is the teacher spreads far and wide...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-11-21
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Mare
1940-05-19
Mare
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-05-19
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Cinque a zero
1932-11-01
Cinque a zero
Overview: Sports comedy film inspired by a 5–0 victory by A.S. Roma against their rivals Juventus in 1931.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-11-01
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The Flame that Never Dies
1949-09-21
The Flame that Never Dies
Overview: Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-09-21
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The Last Wagon
1943-12-01
The Last Wagon
Overview: Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him when he gets into trouble with a former client, Mary Dunchetti (Anna Magnani), an arrogant singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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High Time
1950-04-12
High Time
Overview: The historic clock of a small town needs to be repaired but there is no money in the town coffers to pay for it. Don Paolo (Peppino Spadaro), the Priest, raises the money by lottery and thinks the surplus should go to the poor. The Communists and Socialists object because they are afraid the priest will get the credit and they claim it as "the people's money." The democratic mayor (Arturo Brogaglia) can think of no solution other than organizing committees and sub-committees. Finally, Rocchetti (Paola Stoppi), the town mechanic who has no answers for town problems and hates the clergy and politicians alike, comes forward and repairs the clock for the sheer joy of work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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Giorno di nozze
1942-09-28
Giorno di nozze
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-09-28
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Ragazzo
1934-01-01
Ragazzo
Overview: The film follows Giovanni, a working-class orphan living in Rome, who realizes that his criminal lifestyle is wrong and becomes a devout fascist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Messalina
1924-01-12
Messalina
Overview: In ancient Rome, tyrannical Emperor Caligula is assassinated through the machinations of Messalina. She then makes a conquest of Marcus, who forces the Senate to name her husband, Claudius, as emperor. Messalina's wicked ways continue when she falls in love with Ennio, a slave. Ennio is also loved by Egyptian princess Mirit, but he loves neither of them, preferring the company of Ela, a Greek slave.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1924-01-12
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Pazza di gioia
1940-03-07
Pazza di gioia
Overview: A modest accountant wins a utility vehicle in a contest and publishes an ad looking for a companion to share expenses on a vacation trip. An attractive young lady answers the ad, but at the meeting place, the girl mistakes the accountant for a millionaire, who of course, leaves with her...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-03-07
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L'ospite di una notte
1939-06-20
L'ospite di una notte
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Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-06-20
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Il conte di Bréchard
1938-01-01
Il conte di Bréchard
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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L'uomo del romanzo
1940-10-18
L'uomo del romanzo
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-18
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I, His Father
1939-03-08
I, His Father
Overview: An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Red Roses
1940-04-16
Red Roses
Overview: A comedy of errors about marriage and infidelity. Vittorio De Sica's debut film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-04-16
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Old Guard
1934-06-01
Old Guard
Overview: There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Quei due
1935-01-01
Quei due
Overview: Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number, but all I get are miscues and boos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Giù il sipario
1940-04-20
Giù il sipario
Overview: A playwright, a troop of actors, a director, and the playwright's uncle scheme against each other for their own interests regarding the success or failure of the play
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-04-20
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L'uomo venuto dal mare
1942-02-03
L'uomo venuto dal mare
Overview: An Italian drama from 1942.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-02-03
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Casanova farebbe così!
1942-12-05
Casanova farebbe così!
Overview: A country braggart bets that he can spend a night with a local beauty. When he is surprised by her husband, he is not only forced to pay his friends money but also challenged to come up with a new identity other than Casanova or Don Juan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-12-05
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The Prisoner of Santa Cruz
1941-03-02
The Prisoner of Santa Cruz
Overview: A sea captain forbids his daughter to marry the man whose father he had killed many years before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-03-02
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Non ti pago!
1942-10-07
Non ti pago!
Overview: The owner of a lottery store refuses to pay a large sum won by one of his workers that he hates, because that man received the winning numbers in a dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-10-07
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Our Dreams
1943-09-27
Our Dreams
Overview: Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to accompany for one night the daughter of the firm's accountant, Titi (María Mercader). Leo pretends then to be the son of a tycoon, and takes her in a luxurious restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-09-27
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Gli assi della risata
1943-11-01
Gli assi della risata
Overview: An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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In cerca di felicità
1944-02-18
In cerca di felicità
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-02-18
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Re di danari
1936-09-01
Re di danari
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Via delle Cinque Lune
1942-05-11
Via delle Cinque Lune
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-05-11
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The Children Are Watching Us
1943-10-27
The Children Are Watching Us
Overview: In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-10-27
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Ho visto brillare le stelle
1940-03-17
Ho visto brillare le stelle
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-03-17
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