Italian films of 1956
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A list of film
s produced in Italy
in 1956 (see 1956 in film
):
Film
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s produced in Italy
Italy
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in 1956 (see 1956 in film
1956 in film
The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 5 - The Ten Commandments opens in cinemas and becomes one of the most successful and popular movies of all time, currently ranking 5th on the list of all time moneymakers * February 5 - First showing of documentary films by...
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| 1956 1956 in film The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 5 - The Ten Commandments opens in cinemas and becomes one of the most successful and popular movies of all time, currently ranking 5th on the list of all time moneymakers * February 5 - First showing of documentary films by... |
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| Accadde di notte | ||||
| Adventure in Capri | ||||
| Agguato sul mare | ||||
| Alone in the Streets | ||||
| Amaramente | ||||
| L' Angelo del peccato | ||||
| Arriva la zia d'America | ||||
| Men and Wolves (Uomini e lupi) | Giuseppe De Santis | Silvana Mangano Silvana Mangano Silvana Mangano was an Italian actress.Raised in poverty during World War II, Mangano trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a "Miss Rome" beauty pageant in 1946... , Yves Montand Yves Montand -Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in... , Pedro Armendáriz Pedro Armendáriz Pedro Armendáriz was a Mexican actor of the cinema of Mexico and Hollywood.-Early life:Born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico to Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and Adela Hastings . He was also the cousin of actress Gloria Marín... |
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| Donatella Donatella Donatella is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival Elsa Martinelli won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.-Cast:* Elsa Martinelli - Donatella* Gabriele Ferzetti - Maurizio... |
Mario Monicelli Mario Monicelli Mario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , three times nominated for Oscar.-Biography:... |
Elsa Martinelli Elsa Martinelli Elsa Martinelli is an Italian actress and former fashion model.Born Elisa Tia in Grosseto, Tuscany, she moved to Rome with her family and in 1953 was discovered by Roberto Capucci who introduced her to the world of fashion. She became a model and began playing small roles in films... , Alan Furlan Alan Furlan -Biography:Born Aleardo Furlan in Farla, in the North Friuli region of Italy, Furlan acted in films in Europe and the United States, on Broadway and in commercials.... |
Entered into the 6th Berlin International Film Festival 6th Berlin International Film Festival -Jury:* Marcel Carné* Bill Luckwell* Giuseppe Vittorio Sampieri* Koichi Kawakita* Leo J. Horster* Ilse Urbach* Ludwig Berger-Films in competition:* ...erwachsen sein dagegen sehr by Wolf Hart* Autumn Leaves by Robert Aldrich... |
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| The Railroad Man The Railroad Man The Railroad Man is a 1956 Italian language award winning drama film directed by Pietro Germi.It is available on DVD in USA on NoShame films.-Cast:* Pietro Germi - Andrea Marcocci* Luisa Della Noce - Sara Marcocci... (Il Ferroviere) |
Pietro Germi Pietro Germi Pietro Germi was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di... |
Pietro Germi Pietro Germi Pietro Germi was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di... , Sylva Koscina Sylva Koscina Sylva Koscina was an Italian actress.-Biography:... , Luisa Della Noce |
Drama | 3 awards won at San Sebastián International Film Festival San Sebastián International Film Festival The San Sebastián International Film Festival is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spanish city of San Sebastián .-History:The festival was founded in 1953... . Cannes Award |
| Poveri ma belli Poveri ma belli Poveri ma belli is a successful 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi.There are two sequels, all directed by Dino Risi and starred by Renato Salvatori and Maurizio Arena:... |
Dino Risi | Marisa Allasio Marisa Allasio Marisa Allasio , is a retired Italian actress of the 1950s. She appeared in nearly twenty pictures between 1952 and 1959.... , Maurizio Arena Maurizio Arena Maurizio Arena was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 78 films between 1952 and 1978.-Selected filmography:* It Happened in the Park * Siamo tutti inquilini * The Sign of Venus... , Renato Salvatori Renato Salvatori Renato Salvatori was an Italian multi-purpose character actor.-Biography:Salvatori was born in Seravezza, Province of Lucca.... |
Pink neorrealism | Huge success. There're two sequels by Risi |
| Il Tetto The Roof (film) The Roof is a 1956 Italian drama film directed and produced by Vittorio De Sica.-Plot:Natale, an apprentice bricklayer, and Luisa, who has no skill, marry and try to live with Natale's parents and his seven brothers and sisters in one appartment. This is Rome about 1950. After a quarrel Natale... (The Roof) |
Vittorio De Sica Vittorio de Sica Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.... |
Gabriella Pallotta Gabriella Pallotta Gabriella Pallotta is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 22 films between 1956 and 1974. For the film The Pigeon That Took Rome she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.... , Giorgio Listuzzi |
Pink neorrealism | Cannes Award 1956 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:*Maurice Lehmann *Arletty *Louise de Vilmorin *Jacques-Pierre Frogerais *Henri Jeanson *Domenico Meccoli *Otto Preminger *James Quinn *Roger Regent *María Romero... . Nastro d'Argento Nastro d'Argento The Nastro d'Argento is a movie award assigned each year, since 1946, for cinematic performances and production by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics... best script |
| What a Woman! (La fortuna di essere donna) | Alessandro Blasetti Alessandro Blasetti Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole... |
Sophia Loren Sophia Loren Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance... , Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :... , Charles Boyer Charles Boyer Charles Boyer was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found success in movies during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised romantic dramas,... |
Pink neorrealism | |
| Bambini al cinema | ||||
| Beatrice Cenci Beatrice Cenci Beatrice Cenci was an Italian noblewoman. She is famous as the protagonist in a lurid murder trial in Rome.... |
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| Calabuch Calabuch Calabuch is a 1956 comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga.-Production background:This Spanish-Italian co-production was filmed in Peniscola, Castellón , and features an international cast led by British-American actor Edmund Gwenn in his last film role, and Italians Valentina Cortese and... |
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| Cantando sotto le stelle | ||||
| Canzone proibita | ||||
| Casta diva | ||||
| Cela s'appelle l'aurore | ||||
| Ci sposeremo a Capri | ||||
| Ciao, pais... | ||||
| Città di notte | ||||
| Club de femmes Club de femmes Club de femmes is a 1936 French film directed and written by Jacques Deval, and starring Danielle Darrieux.-Cast:*Danielle Darrieux - Claire Derouve*Josette Day - Juliette*Betty Stockfeld - Greta Kremmer... |
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| Contadini del mare | ||||
| Continenti in fiamme | ||||
| Costruzioni meccaniche Riva | ||||
| Defilè Defile Defile has several meanings:*Wiktionary:defile for dictionary definitions.*defile is a geographic term for a narrow pass or gorge between mountains. It has its origins as a military description of a pass through which troops can march only in a narrow column or with a narrow front.... |
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| Difendo il mio amore Difendo il mio amore Difendo il mio amore is a 1957 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti.... |
Giulio Macchi | Martine Carol Martine Carol -Biography:Born Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, , she studied acting under René Simon , making her stage debut in 1940 and her first motion picture in 1943. One of the most beautiful women in film, she was frequently cast as an elegant blonde seductress... , Gabriele Ferzetti Gabriele Ferzetti Gabriele Ferzetti is an Italian actor. He has more than 160 credits to his name across film, television and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s.... , Alan Furlan Alan Furlan -Biography:Born Aleardo Furlan in Farla, in the North Friuli region of Italy, Furlan acted in films in Europe and the United States, on Broadway and in commercials.... |
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| Don Juan Don Juan Don Juan is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630... |
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| Donatella Donatella Donatella is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival Elsa Martinelli won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.-Cast:* Elsa Martinelli - Donatella* Gabriele Ferzetti - Maurizio... |
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| Donne, amori e matrimoni | ||||
| Due sosia in allegria | ||||
| El expreso de Andalucía | ||||
| Elena et les hommes | ||||
| Era di venerdì 17 | ||||
| Et Dieu... créa la femme | ||||
| Falstaff Falstaff Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare. In the two Henry IV plays, he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V. A fat, vain, boastful, and cowardly knight, Falstaff leads the apparently wayward Prince Hal into trouble, and is... |
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| Gervaise Gervaise Gervaise is a 1956 French film directed by René Clément based on the novel L'Assommoir by Émile Zola. It depicts a woman in the nineteenth century trying to cope with the pressure of dealing with her alcoholic husband... |
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| Giovanni dalle bande nere Giovanni dalle Bande Nere Lodovico de Medici also known as Giovanni dalle Bande Nere was an Italian condottiero.-Biography:Giovanni was born in the Northern Italian town of Forlì to Giovanni de' Medici and Caterina Sforza, one of the most famous women of the Italian Renaissance.From an early age, he demonstrated great... |
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| Gli harem sono deserti | ||||
| Gli occhi senza luce | ||||
| Gli orizzonti del sole | ||||
| Goubbiah, mon amour Goubbiah, mon amour Goubbiah, mon amour is a French romance drama film from 1956, directed by Robert Darène, written by René Barjavel, starring Jean Marais. The scenario was based on a novel of Jean Martet... |
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| Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo | ||||
| Helen of Troy | ||||
| Honey degli uomini perduti | ||||
| I calunniatori | ||||
| I giorni più belli I giorni più belli I giorni più belli is a 1956 comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Franco Interlenghi.-Cast:* Franco Interlenghi* Vittorio De Sica* Mario Carotenuto* Valeria Moriconi* Mario Riva... |
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| I girovaghi | ||||
| I miliardari | ||||
| I vagabondi delle stelle | ||||
| I vampiri I Vampiri I Vampiri is a 1956 Italian horror film loosely based on the story of Elizabeth Báthory. Directed by Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava, the film stars Gianna Maria Canale as Giselle du Grand, Carlo D'Angelo as Inspector Chantal and Dario Michaelis as Pierre Lantin.I Vampiri was the first sound era... |
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| Il bigamo | ||||
| Il canto dell'emigrante | ||||
| Il cavaliere dalla spada nera | ||||
| Il cero | ||||
| Il delitto Matteotti | ||||
| Il ferroviere | ||||
| Il Giglio infranto | ||||
| Il monello del porto | ||||
| Il più grande mistero d'amore | ||||
| Il ponte dell'universo | ||||
| Il sogno dello zio | ||||
| Il suo più grande amore | ||||
| Il tetto | ||||
| Io, Caterina | ||||
| Kean | ||||
| L'alfiere | ||||
| L'angelo del peccato | ||||
| L'homme et l'enfant | ||||
| L'incredibile attesa | ||||
| L'intrusa | ||||
| La banda degli onesti | ||||
| La capinera del mulino | ||||
| La châtelaine du Liban | ||||
| La donna del giorno La Donna del Giorno La Donna del Giorno is an 1956 Italian film starred by Virna Lisi, Haya Harareet and Franco Fabrizi.It is directed by Francesco Maselli and tells the story of a struggling model who concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise... |
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| La donna più bella del mondo | ||||
| La foire aux femmes | ||||
| La fortuna di essere donna | ||||
| La grande barriera | ||||
| La risaia | ||||
| La sonnambula La sonnambula La sonnambula is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer called La somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur.The first... |
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| La sorcière La Sorcière La Sorcière may refer to:* Satanism and Witchcraft* La Sorcière * "La Sorcière", an episode of the series Ciné si and film Princes et Princesses... |
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| La traversée de Paris La Traversée de Paris La Traversée de Paris may refer to:* La Traversée de Paris , a 1989 album by the Michael Nyman Band* La Traversée de Paris , a 1956 French film by Claude Autant-Lara... |
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| La trovatella di Milano | ||||
| La vita che ti diedi | ||||
| La voce che uccide | ||||
| Lauta mancia | ||||
| Le long des trottoirs | ||||
| The Silent World The Silent World The Silent World is a 1956 French documentary film co-directed by the famed French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and a young Louis Malle. The Silent World is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color... |
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| Le secret de soeur Angèle | ||||
| Les possédées | ||||
| Liebe Liebe Liebe is a surname that may refer to:* Carl Christian Vilhelm Liebe , Danish politician* Christian Liebe , German composer * Heinrich Liebe , German naval officer... |
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| Lo sbaglio di essere vivi | ||||
| Lo spadaccino misterioso | ||||
| Lo svitato | ||||
| Londra chiama Polo Nord | ||||
| Madama Butterfly Madama Butterfly Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco... |
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| Mai ti scorderò | ||||
| Mamma sconosciuta | ||||
| Manon: Finestra 2 | ||||
| Marie-Antoinette reine de France | ||||
| Maruzzella | ||||
| Mi permette, babbo! | ||||
| Mi tío Jacinto | ||||
| Michel Strogoff | ||||
| Michelino 1A B | ||||
| Mio figlio Nerone | ||||
| Moglie e buoi | ||||
| Napoli sole mio! | ||||
| Noi siamo le colonne | ||||
| Notre Dame de Paris Notre Dame de Paris Notre Dame de Paris , also known as Notre Dame Cathedral, is a Gothic, Roman Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris: that is, it is the church that contains the cathedra of... |
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| Orlando e i Paladini di Francia | ||||
| Paradiso terrestre | ||||
| Paris, Palace Hôtel | ||||
| Parma città d'oro | ||||
| Pasqua in Sicilia | ||||
| Peccato di castità | ||||
| Per le vie della città | ||||
| Piazza San Marco Piazza San Marco Piazza San Marco , is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as "the Piazza". All other urban spaces in the city are called "campi"... |
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| Piccoli amici | ||||
| Porta un bacione a Firenze | ||||
| Questi ragazzi | ||||
| Ragazze al mare | ||||
| Retaggio di sangue | ||||
| Risveglio | ||||
| San Remo canta | ||||
| Sangue di zingara | ||||
| Scacco matto | ||||
| Serenata al vento | ||||
| Serenata per sedici bionde | ||||
| Sette canzoni per sette sorelle | ||||
| Si tous les gars du monde | ||||
| Siamo tutti necessari | ||||
| Storia di una minorenne | ||||
| Sulle strade di notte | ||||
| Tempo di villeggiatura | ||||
| Terrore sulla città | ||||
| Todos somos necesarios | ||||
| Tormento d'amore | ||||
| Tosca Tosca Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900... |
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| Totò, lascia o raddoppia? | ||||
| Totò, Peppino e i... fuorilegge | ||||
| Totò, Peppino e... la malafemmina | ||||
| Turchia | ||||
| Un traje blanco | ||||
| Una voce una chitarra e un pò di luna | ||||
| Une fée... pas comme les autres | ||||
| Uomini e lupi | ||||
| Vertigine bianca | ||||
| Vous pigez | ||||
| War and Peace War and Peace (1956 film) War and Peace is the first English-language film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is an American/Italian version, directed by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti. The music score was by Nino Rota and the cinematography by Jack Cardiff... |
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External links
- Italian films of 1956 at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...