Casta Diva (1954 film)

Casta Diva
Directed by	Carmine Gallone
Written by	Luigi Filippo D'Amico Carmine Gallone Léo Joannon Walter Reisch Age & Scarpelli
Starring	Antonella Lualdi Nadia Gray Maurice Ronet
Cinematography	Marco Scarpelli
Edited by	Niccolò Lazzari
Production companies	Documento Film Franco London Films Le Louvre Film
Distributed by	Diana Cinematografica
Release date	1954 (1954)
Running time	98 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Language	Italian

Casta Diva is a 1954 Italian-French biographical melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone. It is a remake of Gallone's 1935 film with the same name. ^{[1] [2]}

Plot

The film tells the fictionalized biography of the famous musician Vincenzo Bellini, who lived in the 19th century and died at the age of 34.

Cast

• Antonella Lualdi as Maddalena Fumaroli
• Nadia Gray as Giuditta Pasta
• Maurice Ronet as Vincenzo Bellini
• Fausto Tozzi as Gaetano Donizetti
• Jacques Castelot as Ernesto Tosi
• Marina Berti as Beatrice Turina
• Renzo Ricci as Giudice Fumaroli
• Jean Richard as Fiorillo
• Paola Borboni as Miss Monti
• Lauro Gazzolo as Domenico Barbaja
• Danilo Berardinelli as Niccolò Paganini
• Renzo Giovampietro as Saverio Mercadante
• Camillo Pilotto as Rettore Conservatorio
• Luigi Tosi as Felice Romani
• Dante Maggio as Il pazzariello
• Nino Vingelli as Il guappo

References

1. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN   8876055487.
2. Paolo Mereghetti (2010). Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN   978-8860736260.

External links

• Casta Diva at IMDb