Giuseppe Varni
Also Known As: Józef Winawer, Józef Bruno Winawer, Jozef Bruno Winawer
Biography: Giuseppe Varni (born Józef Bruno Winawer) (1902-1965) was a Polish-born Italian stage and film actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Russian Empire [now Poland]
Adult: No
Birthday: March 20, 1902
Age: 123 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 25, 1965
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Taxi di notte
Overview: A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-09
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Primo amore
Overview: An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-10-05
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Black Magic
Overview: A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-19
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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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Eugenia Grandet
Overview: Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-09-10
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Before Him All Rome Trembled
Overview: An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-10-02
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The Great Way
Overview: A pair of Poles deported to Siberia are taken to the army formed by General Anders and along the battle trail.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1947-08-08
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Casta diva
Overview: As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-27
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Beyond Love
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1940
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-10
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La grande rinuncia
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Quo Vadis
Overview: After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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Il trovatore
Overview: Azucena, daughter of a Gypsy burnt at the stake, to take her revenge kidnaps one of the children of Count de Luna and raises him in secret as her own.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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La portatrice di pane
Overview: France, 1860. A young widow is wrongly accused of murder and, after serving many years in prison, she escapes to find the real culprit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-13
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Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
Overview: A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day, the love letter the woman writes to this non-existent man is accidentally sent by one of her students –and falls into the hands of a real person.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-18
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Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen
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Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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Rigoletto
Overview: This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Odessa in Flames
Overview: The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian troops enter Odessa.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Tristi amori
Overview: Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-10-29
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Eternal Melody
Overview: The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-03
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The Affairs of Messalina
Overview: A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-04
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La forza del destino
Overview: Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-01-24
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Le due orfanelle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-08-16
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