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Casta Diva (1935 film)

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Directed by
  
Carmine Gallone

Edited by
  
Fernando Tropea

Director
  
Carmine Gallone

6.9/10
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Written by
  
Walter Reisch

Initial release
  
14 June 1935

Language
  
Italian

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Produced by
  
Giuseppe Amato William Szekeley

Starring
  
Sandra Palmieri Gualtiero Tumiati Achille Majeroni

Cinematography
  
Franz Planer Massimo Terzano

Cast
  
Sandro Palmieri, Gualtiero Tumiati, Achille Majeroni, Cesare Bettarini

Producers
  
Giuseppe Amato, William A. Szekeley

Awards
  
Mussolini Cup for Best Italian Film

Similar
  
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Casta diva film completo del 1935 di carmine gallone vita da giovane di vincenzo bellini


Casta Diva is a 1935 Italian musical drama film, directed by Carmine Gallone. The film won Best Italian Film at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival. An English-language version The Divine Spark was made at the same time, also directed by Gallone and starring Eggerth. Gallone remade the film in 1954 in Technicolor.

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Plot

Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini and his problems with his opera Norma (1831).

Norma tells the passionate love story of a Gallican priestess and a Roman proconsul (governor of a province). The film is unique because it uses abstract paintings-in-motion to express the passion between the two main characters.

Cast

  • Mártha Eggerth ... Maddelena Fumarol
  • Sandro Palmieri ... Vincenzo Bellini
  • Gualtiero Tumiati ... Niccolò Paganini
  • Lamberto Picasso ... Fumaroli
  • Achille Majeroni ... Gioacchino Rossini
  • Lina Marengo ... a guest

    • References

    Casta Diva (1935 film) Wikipedia
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