Fosco Giachetti
Also Known As: Фоско Джакетти
Biography: Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor. Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of Lo squadrone bianco (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fascist propaganda films such as Tredici uomini e un cannone (1936), Sentinelle di bronzo (1937), Scipione l'Africano, Edgar Neville's Italian Carmen fra i rossi (1939), L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940) and Bengasi (1942). In 1942, he also co-starred in Goffredo Alessandrini's two part Noi Vivi and Addio Kira!. Un colpo di pistola (1942) by Renato Castellani and Fari nella nebbia (1942) by Gianni Franciolini were not as successful as his earlier films. After the war, he returned to the stage. He worked in Spain with Edgar Neville in Nada and in Carne de horca. He had a supporting role in 1959 Dino Risi's successful comedy Il mattatore. In 1964, he appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, The Citadel. In 2003, the Galleria Fosco Giachetti in Sesto Fiorentino was opened in his honor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: March 28, 1900
Age: 125 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 22, 1974
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Giacobbe ed Esau
Overview: A film about twin bothers Jacob & Esau
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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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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Headlights in the Fog
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-02-15
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The Conformist
Overview: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Ridi pagliaccio
Overview: When she is in jail to defend her colleague, the secretary Anna Alessandri finds out that her man got engaged to another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-03-05
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Nothing
Overview: When young Andrea arrives in Barcelona to begin her university studies, she stays at her aunt Angustias' house, where she lives with several relatives with whom she has constant arguments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-11-11
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Love and Larceny
Overview: Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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The Virtuous Bigamist
Overview: The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-20
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Napoli che non muore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-18
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Il trattato scomparso
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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The Inheritor
Overview: After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-22
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The Damned
Overview: A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-19
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Another Man's Wife
Overview: Ana and Andres meet again after many years. They are no longer two youngsters, both are married with children. Andres insists, but Ana has trouble in forgetting what happened long ago, when he left without saying goodbye to go to Paris.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-23
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Condemned to Hang
Overview: Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-10-08
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Samba
Overview: Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair with Assis (Carlos Alberto). Favela-girl Belén (also Montiel) is the look-alike who takes her place, unaware she is being used by a gang that smuggles precious stones sewn in Carnival costumes. Written by fabreu
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-02-01
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Senza cielo
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-11-24
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Heart of Tramp
Overview: When an innocent young woman finds herself abandoned by the proper young man whose child she's had, she is taken in by a troupe of traveling performers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-04-02
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Vento d'Africa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Scipio the African
Overview: Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-03
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A Pistol Shot
Overview: Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-08-31
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We the Living, Part Two
Overview: After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-09-15
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The Siege of the Alcazar
Overview: Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-01-02
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Labbra serrate
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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Carmen and the Reds
Overview: Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-12-23
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Sentinels of Bronze
Overview: Directed by Romolo Marcellini.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-02
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White Squadron
Overview: Lieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post when his romance with society girl Cristiana goes on the rocks. Ludovici is looked upon as a weakling by Captain Santelia, the hard-boiled commander of the troops, but after a bitter campaign against a rebel tribe Ludovici proves his true worth and returns as commander when Santelia is mortally wounded. Cristiana arrives and tries to entice him to return to Rome, but he decides to stay in Africa with the army.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-01-02
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Ricorda con rabbia
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
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Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God
Overview: Biblical figure Jacob is forced to flee for his life when an enraged Esau vows to kill him.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-04-05
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Overview: A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-08-04
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L'Altra
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-07-06
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Una lettera all'alba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-10-13
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Life Begins Anew
Overview: A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-09-21
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The Sinner
Overview: Seduced and abandonned by her fiance, Maria Ferrante leaves home to avoid any scandal. She is trying to find work and place to stay but one misfortune after another comes into her life Venice Film Festival 1940
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-01-10
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Crossroads of Passion
Overview: Lisbon, the capital of Neutral Portugal, is a hotbed of spies. Mario, a cabaret singer working for the Allies is responsible for the death of an Italian agent. His widow Irène heads to Portugal and in her desire for revenge she agrees to work for the Nazis.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-08-04
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Creature della notte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Plains of Battle
Overview: Despite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach them how to become real Cossacks.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-07
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Romanticismo
Overview: Drama set in Milan in 1858. Dr. Antonio Ansperti from Como, implicated in the clandestine activities of the Young Italy revolutionary movement, is arrested by the Austrian authorities. After a trial he is sentenced to death and executed, in spite of efforts by his countryman Count Lamberti to intervene on his behalf with the Governor of Milan.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-12-14
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Conqueror of the Orient
Overview: Centuries ago in the Orient, the fiscal exactions on the people lead to a revolt against the usurper of the throne, and the empowerment of a new leader.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-14
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The Fury of Achilles
Overview: In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans.
Genres: War Adventure Drama Romance Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-23
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The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Overview: The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
Genres: Music Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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The Glass Castle
Overview: Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-16
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Bengasi
Overview: The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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Notte di tempesta
Overview: The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another man who however secretly lusts after his stepdaughter until when, on a stormy night...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-06-12
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L'amante segreta
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-09-27
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Scorned Flesh
Overview: A sailor, Paolo, falls in love with a girl named Luisa. The two decides to get married, but on the day of the marriage the woman is involved in a serious car accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-04-14
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Four Women
Overview: The entrance of a woman in a café where, gathered by chance, four men play cards, brings to the mind of each of them the memory of their past love experiences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-08
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The Woman of Monte Carlo
Overview: An adventuress serves as bait for a swindler, who robs the naive people she brings to him with poker. A childhood friend helps him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-07-28
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The Dream of Butterfly
Overview: Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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L'abito nero da sposa
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-05-17
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Fear No Evil
Overview: The life of Saint Benedict, the founder of Western Monasticism.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-09-21
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La figlia del corsaro verde
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-23
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Farewell, My Beautiful Naples
Overview: In Naples, a local composer falls in love with an American tourist.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Luce nelle tenebre
Overview: Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-07-12
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We the Living, Part One
Overview: At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-09-14
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Un uomo facile
Overview: The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen from the point of view of the women the boxers love. One of the pugilists is a rookie on the rise and his sister has married the reigning champion. Now the champ is getting older and less able to hold his own against the newcomers -- including his brother-in-law. As his fortunes begin to decline, his wife whom he married while affluent is slowly forced to deal with the difficulties of poverty. This Italian drama was an entry in the 1959 Berlin Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-24
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The Nun of Monza
Overview: Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-05-10
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The Brothers Karamazov
Overview: When a tragedy strikes father Fyodor Karamazov, the wretched relation with his three sons reveals itself surrounded by intrigue, envy and deceit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-12-04
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The Counterfeiters
Overview: Producers of phony currency become the object of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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Taras Bulba
Overview: Italian adaptation of the historical novella of the same name by Nikolai Gogol.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-31
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The Wastrel
Overview: A wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his not so perfect life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-24
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Quattro rose rosse
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
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La notte dell'innominato
Overview: On the night of Lucia's kidnapping, the Unnamed revisits his life. Many years earlier a caravan of Andalusian gypsies arrived at the gates of Milan. Among these were Esteban with his mother, his fiancée Maria Dolores, and the latter's sister, Carmencita who, in love with Esteban, resorts to every means to hinder the wedding. In a scuffle she caused, her sister was killed by thugs. The gypsies' wagons are destroyed and the few survivors, including Esteban and his mother, are forced to flee. Carmencita becomes the governor's wife and Esteban a bandit who steals Spanish wheat and gold to give to the people. On Carmencita's whim, Esteban's mother, arrested and accused of witchcraft, dies. Esteban continues his life as a bandit and becomes the terrible Unnamed, who will finally reach his conversion thanks to Lucia and Cardinal Federico.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-19
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Re Lear
Overview: An old king believes he can retire to private life, leaving his kingdom in the hands of his daughters. The two older ones don't take long to take over everything and reduce their father to a poor tramp. But the third daughter who married the king of France comes to the rescue. After a furious battle, a hecatomb takes place. Lear dies and with him his whole dynasty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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L'avvocato difensore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-05-08
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