Umberto Sacripante
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: October 02, 1904
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 14, 1975
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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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Dappled Mare
Overview: Ruggero Pascoli, the father of poet Giovanni Pascoli, is killed by a corrupt officer. His body is brought back home by a mare that will, several years later, reveal the one responsible for the murder.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-23
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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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Figaro and His Great Day
Overview: In this delightful mixture of romance, comedy and music, the director turns back the wheel of time about sixty years and shows the audience an Italy of primitive railroads, high bicycles and the famous "dolce far niente." Taking the visit of a traveling opera company to a small town, where it is scheduled to present "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" and where one of the most important citizens is a retired opera singer, the scenario writer weaves a web of merry complications well calculated to keep the spectators in a happy mood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-21
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Terra di nessuno
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-04-17
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La danza delle lancette
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Castles in the Air
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-03-19
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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 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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Vele ammainate
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-01-01
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Guilt Is Not Mine
Overview: Carlo, a young doctor, occasionally meets Anna, the daughter of professor Valli. Carlo falls in love with Anna, who returns his feelings; but her father longs a brilliant marriage for her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-28
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Tourist Train
Overview: The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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Guai ai vinti
Overview: A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman discover they are pregnant. After a suicide attempt, one has an abortion the other keeps her child - and both faces struggles with friends and family as they return to their homes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-15
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La maestrina
Overview: In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses people's curiosity and gossip. The young mayor of the village feels attracted to the girl and begins to court her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-10-08
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Von der Liebe besiegt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-12-20
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Notte di fiamme
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Peppino e la vecchia signora
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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First Communion
Overview: The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-29
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An Adventure of Salvator Rosa
Overview: Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-16
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The Private Secretary
Overview: During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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The Old Lady
Overview: An elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a carriage to impress her daughter in a convent. One day she is robbed of her meager savings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-02-26
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Before the Jury
Overview: During a reception in a villa, wealthy banker Calandri is killed in the park with a gunshot. The gamekeeper Barra is immediately arrested, but he declares himself innocent. During the trial it turns out that the defendant had threatened the victim, guilty of courting his sister-in-law. But the deposition of a journalist present at the party soon leads to discover the existence of a dense network of equivocal relations between the victim, the guests and the servants. This judicial setting drama is allegedly the second Italian sound film after "The Song of Love", made using the RCA Photophone recording technique, and is also considered to be the first Italian detective film, a precursor to the later genre of Giallo films.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-01-31
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Resurrection
Overview: A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-05-30
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Palio
Overview: It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe' chanteuse. Bachicche, the jockey of a rival neighborhood, wants to get even with Zarre for a past offense and enlists the help of the chanteuse, Liliana (Laura Nucci).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-04-17
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Flucht in die Dolomiten
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-12-30
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Department Store
Overview: In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-06-03
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I'll Give a Million
Overview: A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-01-02
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Tragic Hunt
Overview: Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-04
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Robin Hood and the Pirates
Overview: On his way to (or from) the Crusades, Robin Hood is shipwrecked but saved by pirates who plan to return him home in order to ransom him to his father.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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Montevergine
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1939
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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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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O.K. Nero
Overview: Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-20
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Monte Miracolo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-11-24
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Pia de' Tolomei
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-29
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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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The Mysteries of Paris
Overview: Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised as a tramp, he wanders the city's slums encountering various characters who either help or hinder him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-08-21
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La muta di Portici
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-15
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The Thief of Venice
Overview: A beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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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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La mia vita sei tu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-02-01
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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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