Gino Mattera
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House of Ricordi
1954-12-01
House of Ricordi
Overview: 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.
Genres: History Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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L'amore di Norma
1951-05-05
L'amore di Norma
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-05-05
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Hercules
1958-02-20
Hercules
Overview: In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-02-20
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Faust and the Devil
1949-09-07
Faust and the Devil
Overview: Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-09-07
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Hercules Unchained
1959-02-14
Hercules Unchained
Overview: En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
Genres: Fantasy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-14
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Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen
1952-12-25
Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen
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Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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La signora dalle camelie
1947-12-22
La signora dalle camelie
Overview: A courtesan sacrifices her relationship with a youthful admirer after the man's father pleads with her. Adapted from Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera in the three acts "La Traviata".
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-12-22
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Otello
1958-01-01
Otello
Overview: This 1958 filmed version of Verdi's masterful Otello stars Mario Del Monaco, perhaps the greatest Otello of the 21st century, as the tragic moor who is consumed by jealousy thanks to the machinations of the villainous Jago.
Genres: Music Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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