The Force of Destiny (film)

The Force of Destiny
Directed by	Carmine Gallone
Written by	Mario Corsi Ottavio Poggi Lionello De Felice Francesco Maria Piave (libretto) Duque de Rivas
Starring	Nelly Corradi Tito Gobbi Gino Sinimberghi
Cinematography	Aldo Giordani
Edited by	Niccolò Lazzari
Music by	Giuseppe Verdi (opera)
Production company	Produzione Gallone
Distributed by	Union Film
Release date	24 January 1950 (1950-01-24)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Force of Destiny (Italian : La forza del destino) is a 1950 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Nelly Corradi, Tito Gobbi and Gino Sinimberghi. ^[1] It is based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera La forza del destino .

The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin.

Cast

• Nelly Corradi as Donna Leonora
• Gino Sinimberghi as Don Alvaro
• Tito Gobbi as Don Carlos
• Giulio Neri as Padre Guardiano
• Vito De Taranto  [ it ] as Frà Melitone
• Mira Vargas as Preziosilla
• John Kitzmiller as Lo scudiero moro
• Fausto Tommei as Il marchese di Calatrava
• Giuseppe Varni as Il pellegrino caritatevole
• Nerio Bernardi as Don Angelo Saavedra
• Paola Dalgas as Dana
• Pina Piovani as Cameriera di Leonora
• Giovanni Onorato as Giocatore di Carte
• Silvana Pampanini
• Galliano Masini as Alvaro (voice)
• Caterina Mancini as Leonora (voice)
• Cloe Elmo as Preziosilla (voice)

References

1. Aprà, p. 93

Bibliography

• Aprà, Adriano. The Fabulous Thirties: Italian Cinema 1929–1944. Electa International, 1979.

External links

• The Force of Destiny at IMDb