Giuseppe Verdi
Leonardo Benvenuti
Mario Monicelli
Raffaello Matarazzo
Raffaello Matarazzo
Piero Pierotti
Liana Ferri
Casts & Crew
Pierre Cressoy
Anna Maria Ferrero
Gaby André
Sandro Ruffini
Camillo Pilotto
Laura Gore
Loris Gizzi
Emilio Cigoli
Irene Genna
Mario Del Monaco
Tito Gobbi
Gianni Agus
Enzo Biliotti
Lola Braccini
Aldo Bufi Landi
Guido Celano
Eduardo de Santis
Hady De Santis
Vito De Taranto
Liana Del Balzo
Franca Dominici
Mario Ferrari
Teresa Franchini
Olga Vittoria Gentilli
Enrico Glori
Orietta Moscucci
Turi Pandolfini
Rosetta Pasquini
Gian Paolo Rosmino
Marika Rowsky
Anna Vivaldi
Also Directed by Raffaello Matarazzo
The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to a baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: at first she takes her son abroad with an excuse and then has her grandson kidnapped making Luisa think the boy died in a fire.
His 1933 debut, following some years as a journalist and then script boy, was Treno popolare, an early sound lark about several Roman petit bourgeois on a day trip to the country that was influenced by the German proto-neorealist silent picture People on Sunday (1930). 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.
Raped during the war by a stranger, Anna is forced by their parents to pretend that that her daughter Lisa is her sister. When she is about to marry the new doctor in the country, her jealous brother resorts to threats of blackmail in an attempt to keep them apart.
In The White Angel, Raffaello Matarazzo’s sequel to his blockbuster Nobody’s Children, the perpetually put-upon Guido and Luisa return for a new round of trials and tribulations.
A man wants to leave his wife for another woman, but this other woman decides not to live with him.
A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his brother's overbearing wife.
A comedy in which a young lawyer, with a very jealous wife, ends up hosting a woman from his building for a night, with strange consequences
A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la Mort, who promises to help the girl.
A young lady is employed by a millionaire. She is kidnapped instead of the rich woman by a gang, on behalf of people who were interested in the rich woman's disappearance. She is brought to a special hotel, where the guests are people who are imprisoned because their families wanted to get rid of them. The rich woman is finally able to convince a police officer to investigate the strange vanishing. A prisoner goes mad and sets fire to the prison, which could not have been detected otherwise, freeing the disappeared at last.