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Alessandro Blasetti
Writer 1900 - 1987

Alessandro Blasetti

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes... Read full bio →

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Io, io, io.... e gli altri

Io, io, io.... e gli altri

Alessandro Blasetti 1966 1h 42m 6.0

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.

Amore e chiacchiere (Salviamo il panorama)

Amore e chiacchiere (Salviamo il panorama)

Alessandro Blasetti 1958 1h 35m 6.0

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.

Prima comunione

Prima comunione

Alessandro Blasetti 1950 1h 30m 6.0

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.

Nessuno torna indietro

Nessuno torna indietro

Alessandro Blasetti 1945 1h 35m 6.0

Seven young women in a boarding house in Rome during WWII: their aspirations and future hopes.Several keep memories of soldiers who are no longer alive, while others find new loves: a professor, an industrialist, a blind man.

Quelli della montagna

Quelli della montagna

Aldo Vergano 1943 1h 25m 6.0

Andrea Fontana is a lawyer who meets a girl and then marries her. But it is not long before he is called to serve in the war.

La cena delle beffe

La cena delle beffe

Alessandro Blasetti 1942 1h 27m 8.0

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.

4 passi fra le nuvole

4 passi fra le nuvole

Alessandro Blasetti 1942 1h 28m 7.5

Paolo Bianchi è un commesso viaggiatore che, conosciuta una ragazza incinta ma non maritata, la aiuta a ritornare presso la sua famiglia, decisamente all'antica, fingendosi il suo compagno.

La corona di ferro

La corona di ferro

Alessandro Blasetti 1941 1h 48m 7.2

Nel regno di Kindaor, il fratricida Sedesmondo diventa reggente e s'impadronisce del regno. Scampa all'eccidio il principino Arminio.

Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa

Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa

Alessandro Blasetti 1939 1h 36m 2.0

Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida, and Osvaldo Valenti star in this Italian swashbuckler which would have starred Errol Flynn or Douglas Fairbanks had it been made in Hollywood. Salvatore Rosa was a versatile poet and painter of landscapes and battles.

Ettore Fieramosca

Ettore Fieramosca

Alessandro Blasetti 1938 1h 32m 7.0

ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833.

1860

1860

Alessandro Blasetti 1934 1h 15m

The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land.

Resurrectio

Resurrectio

Alessandro Blasetti 1931 1h 5m 8.0

A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.

Sole!

Sole!

Alessandro Blasetti 1929 1h 16m

Sole is the first film by the great Alessandro Blasetti and bears a complex relationship to the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, a seminal event in Fascist political history.

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