Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
Italian hip hop is hip hop music rapped in the Italian language and/or made by Italian artists. One of the first hip hop crews to catch the attention of the Italian mainstream was Bologna's Isola Posse All Star, then and still today produced by Sandro Orru, who had written the soundtrack to the animated Signor Rossi TV series Signor Rossi in the 1970s. The European Music Office's report on Music in Europe claimed that in general, hip hop from the south of Italy tends to be harder than that from the north.
The Hurricane is a 1937 film set in the South Seas, directed by John Ford and produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions, about a Polynesian who is unjustly imprisoned. The climax features a "hurricane" generated through special effects. It stars Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall, with Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, John Carradine, and Jerome Cowan. James Norman Hall, Jon Hall's uncle, co-wrote the novel of the same name on which The Hurricane is based.
That Night in Varennes is a 1982 French-Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It is based on a novel by Catherine Rihoit. It tells the story of a fictional meeting among Restif de la Bretonne, Giacomo Casanova, Thomas Paine and Sophie de la Borde. They are all traveling together in a coach that is a few hours behind the one that is carrying King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in their flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
On 27 April 1981, the Red Brigades (BR) kidnapped the 60-year-old Christian Democrat (DC) politician Ciro Cirillo and killed his two-man escort in the garage of his Naples apartment building. At the time, Cirillo directed reconstruction efforts in Campania devastated by the earthquake in the Irpinia region on 23 November 1980. He was released after a controversial deal with the Camorra; they did not negotiate with the BR and only asked them to release him. This happened several years after the Italian state had refused to negotiate with the BR in their kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, leading observers and critics to wonder what changed and the reasons behind the state's negotiation. Cirillo died in 2017.
Armando Migliari was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 103 films between 1914 and 1965.
Lo vedi come sei... lo vedi come sei? is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Erminio Macario. The film's sets were designed by the art director Cinecittà Studios.
Invisible Chains is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Carlo Ninchi and Giuditta Rissone. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ottavio Scotti and Mario Rappini.
Un mandarino per Teo is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Walter Chiari.
Achille Majeroni was an Italian film actor.
Antonio Gandusio was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 34 films between 1914 and 1948. He was born in Rovigno and died in Milan, Italy.
Luigi Almirante was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in 62 films between 1921 and 1955.
His Young Wife is a 1945 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Soldati. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
Malombra is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Isa Miranda, Andrea Checchi and Irasema Dilián. It is based on the novel Malombra by Antonio Fogazzaro, which had previously been adapted into a 1917 silent film of the same title. It was made at Cinecittà with sets designed by Gino Brosio. It was produced by Riccardo Gualino's Lux Film. It belongs to the movies of the calligrafismo style.
Mad Animals is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Totò, Luisa Ferida and Calisto Bertramo. It was made at the Titanus Studios in Rome.
Ernesto Almirante was an Italian film and stage actor.
The Man on the Street is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Roberti and starring Armando Falconi, Carla Del Poggio and Giuseppe Rinaldi.
Pergolesi is a 1932 Italian historical musical film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Elio Steiner, Dria Paola and Tina Lattanzi. It portrays the brief life of the eighteenth-century Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. It was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome. A separate French-language version Les amours de Pergolèse was released the following year.
The Last Adventure is a 1932 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini, starring Armando Falconi and Diomira Jacobini.
Big Shoes is a 1940 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Dino Falconi and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Lilia Silvi and Elena Altieri. It is based on a play by Sándor Hunyady which had previously been turned into a 1939 Hungarian film Istvan Bors.
