Rigoletto (1956 film)
Rigoletto or Rigoletto and His Tragedy (Italian: Rigoletto e la sua tragedia) is a 1956 Italian musical melodrama film written and directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Luciano Tajoli and Jula De Palma. It is based on the 1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto and incorporated music from that work.[1][2]
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| Directed by | Flavio Calzavara |
| Produced by | Francesco Granata-Vigo |
| Written by | Flavio Calzavara Jacopo Corsi Paola Ojetti |
| Starring | Aldo Silvani Gérard Landry Loris Gizzi |
| Music by | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Cinematography | Bitto Albertini |
| Edited by | Otello Colangeli |
Production company | Diva Film |
| Distributed by | Felix Film |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Language | Italian |
The film's sets were designed by the art director Franco Lolli.
Cast
- Aldo Silvani as Rigoletto
- Janet Vidor as Gilda
- Gérard Landry as Duke of Mantua
- Loris Gizzi as Count of Ceprano
- Cesare Polacco as Sparafucile
- Franca Tamantini as Maddalena
- Gualtiero Tumiati as Count of Monterone
- Nietta Zocchi as Giovanna
- Vittorio Vaser as Marullo
- Renato Chiantoni as The Poet
- Mario Terribile as Borsa
References
- Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
- Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
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