| Before Him All Rome Trembled | |
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| Directed by | Carmine Gallone |
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| Cinematography | Anchise Brizzi |
| Edited by | Niccolò Lazzari |
| Music by | Renzo Rossellini |
Production company | Excelsa Film |
| Distributed by | Minerva Film |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Before Him All Rome Trembled (Italian : Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma) is a 1946 Italian musical war melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Anna Magnani, Tito Gobbi and Hans Hinrich. Ada and Marco are a pair of opera singers, who moonlight working for the Italian resistance at the time of the German occupation of Rome during the Second World War. They are sheltering a British soldier with whom they make contact with the advancing Allied forces. Sylistically the film is a hybrid between filmed performances of opera, and a neorealistic resistance melodrama. [1]
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The title refers to Giacomo Puccini's Tosca , which is performed during the film.
