Elisa Cegani
Also Known As: Elisa Sandri, Элиза Чегани
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Turin, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: June 10, 1911
Age: 113 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 23, 1996
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Times Gone By
Overview: A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-28
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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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The Sicilian Clan
Overview: An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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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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Aldebaran
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-01-02
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La fiammata
Overview: Just before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a party is held in the castle of the Stettin's Counts.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-18
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The Iron Crown
Overview: In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-09-07
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Beyond Good and Evil
Overview: The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-05
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The Anatomy of Love
Overview: Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Saul and David
Overview: David of Bethlehem slays the giant and becomes a rival to King Saul.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Nana
Overview: Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-07-26
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Il vetturale del Moncenisio
Overview: During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-30
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Son of Hercules vs. Medusa
Overview: To avenge his father's death and free the people of Seriphos from the evil King Galinor of Argus, the noble Perseus must defeat a dragon -- and the monster Medusa, whose steely gaze has cast the kingdom's best soldiers into stone.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-07
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Fabiola
Overview: In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-03
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Gente dell’aria
Overview: Two half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger brother, son of the first wife of their father. Then both brothers fall in love with the same woman; this causes more conflict between the two, making worse an already tense situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-03-04
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A Day in the Life
Overview: Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-04-05
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Con gli occhi dell'occidente
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Simon Bolivar
Overview: Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-12
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Tomorrow We Dance
Overview: Aliens send a hypnotic signal through a TV channel, and the signal makes people dance and makes them forget their fears.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-09
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Gioco pericoloso
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-09-11
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But It's Nothing Serious
Overview: Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-04-01
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In the Eddy of Sin
Overview: After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-30
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Cavalleria
Overview: Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-10-23
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The Last Judgment
Overview: The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-26
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The Jester's Supper
Overview: In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-02-10
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No One Comes Back
Overview: A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-05
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Graziella
Overview: Naples 1821. Alphonse, a young poet belonging to a noble French family, is caught by a storm at sea. Fortunately the boat manage to reach the shores of Procida, where Alphonse is welcomed by the family of Andrea. Here he meets the beautiful Graziella.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-28
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Luxury Girls
Overview: Lorna, the daughter of an American playboy, enters a girls' school for the international smart-set, in the Alps, where the main course of study appears to be how to trap a rich man. At first, she is dominated and looked down on by the school ring-leaders, and forced into rooming with - horrors - a scholarship student. But when a rich young American shows interest in her she is elevated to the international clique of the upper-termers. Then she falls in love with - horrors again - a poor local mountaineer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Harlem
Overview: This propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Capone’s help in 1933, was beaten the following year by the Jewish Max Bear and then again by the ‘Brown Bomber’ Detroit Joe Lewis in June 1935, on the eve of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. This match provoked numerous racial skirmishes on the streets of Harlem between the Black community and pro-Fascist Italian-Americans. The film overturns historical facts and here, obviously, it is the white boxer who wins in order to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan Italians” over the “sinister Jewish entrepreneurs” and the “savage Afro-American fans in Yankee Stadium”. In the film, these were played by South African prisoners-of-war interred in a work camp, which the German and Italian propaganda ministries had set up near Cinecittà “for cinematic purposes”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-04-21
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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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Love and Chatter
Overview: Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-01-31
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Retroscena
Overview: Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while wooing his love interest.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-11-26
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Si le roi savait ça
Overview: Pascal's life should have been normal and happy. A shepherd in his native Provence, he was a friendly young man who very naturally fell in love with Vivette, the daughter of a rich farmer. But that was without counting with Marcellin, a spiteful, jealous man who coveted Vivette and wanted her for himself.The traitor managed to have Pascal enrolled in Napoleon's army. Pascal came close to death in Russia but miraculously survived. And fifteen years later vengeance would be his. Reunited with Vivette and the child he had given her, time had come for happiness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-07-09
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A Very Handy Man
Overview: In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-23
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Loving You Is My Sin (Sister Celeste)
Overview: After her father commits suicide, a young woman asks for help to the son of a Countess and they fall in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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The Doll that Took the Town
Overview: A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-06
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Constantine and the Cross
Overview: Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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The Duchess of Parma
Overview: La Contessa di Parma was the sole directorial contribution by Allesandro Blasetti in 1937. The first of several expensive costume dramas upon which the director established his international reputation, the film stars Elisa Cegani as Marcella, a model in the dress shop owned by enterprising Umberto Melnati. To improve his business, the owner instructs his models to dress up as society ladies and attend all the best parties. And that's how humble little Marcella comes to be mistaken for the popular Duchess of Parma -- and by extension, how our heroine wins the love of football hero Gino Vanni (Antonio Centa). A little wanting in the way of plot or logic, La Constessa di Parma is at least consistently good to look at.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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La nemica
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-26
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The Reluctant Saint
Overview: Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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Escapade in Florence
Overview: American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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A Free Woman
Overview: Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she barely knows. So begins a series of romantic encounters in which Liana tries to find her freedom and happiness, but which will ultimately lead her to a tragic fate.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Languidi baci... perfide carezze
Overview: Italian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-12-08
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Overview: Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-16
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La rosa rossa
Overview: A former General comes back to Trieste to live with his cousins.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-07-01
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What a Woman!
Overview: A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-02-03
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Ettore Fieramosca
Overview: ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-12-28
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Passionate song
Overview: Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both parents, is taken as a housekeeper in the house of Mrs. Carla Parodi, when she reaches the age of majority, the young woman is almost forced to marry Mrs. Carla's brother. After the marriage and the birth of the first child, Parodi's intrusions on the life of the two spouses continue.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-20
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Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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La prigioniera della torre di fuoco
Overview: Italy, 15th century: Marco and Cesco, two youths from rival families are friends but become enemies when they both fall in love with the same girl, Germana, who is kept prisoner by Cesco's family in a tower. Germana is however in love with Marco and Cesco, feeling betrayed, has Marco imprisoned. During a battle Marco proves however his loyalty to his friend, who falls unfortunately deadly wounded.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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