La stanza del vescovo (film)
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La stanza del vescovo is an Italian
film
directed by Dino Risi adapted from the novel of the same name by Piero Chiara
. It stars Ugo Tognazzi
, Ornella Muti
and Patrick Dewaere
. Supporting actors include Lia Tanzi and Carlo Mazzarella.
Lake Maggiore
provides a beautiful and evocative back-drop to the action: the central events of the film take place around Baveno
. (In the novel the location had been Oggebbio
).
Cinema of Italy
The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...
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Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
directed by Dino Risi adapted from the novel of the same name by Piero Chiara
Piero Chiara
Piero Chiara was an Italian writer.He was born in Luino, on Lake Maggiore into a family of Sicilian origin. Sought by the Fascist milice during World War II, he fled to Switzerland in 1944...
. It stars Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.-Early life:Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.After his return in the native city in 1936, he...
, Ornella Muti
Ornella Muti
Ornella Muti is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Russian mother. Her maternal grandparents immigrated from Leningrad , Russia, to Estonia...
and Patrick Dewaere
Patrick Dewaere
Patrick Dewaere was a French film actor. He was born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, son of French actress Mado Maurin. His five siblings, Jean-Pierre Maurin , Yves-Marie Maurin , Dominique Maurin , Jean-Francois Maurin and Marie-Veronique Maurin Patrick Dewaere (26 January 1947 – 16 July 1982)...
. Supporting actors include Lia Tanzi and Carlo Mazzarella.
Lake Maggiore
Lake Maggiore
Lake Maggiore is a large lake located on the south side of the Alps. It is the second largest of Italy and largest of southern Switzerland. Lake Maggiore is the most westerly of the three great prealpine lakes of Italy, it extends for about 70 km between Locarno and Arona.The climate is mild...
provides a beautiful and evocative back-drop to the action: the central events of the film take place around Baveno
Baveno
Baveno is a town and comune in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, part of Piedmont, northern Italy. It is located on the west shore of Lago Maggiore, 13 miles North West of Arona by rail....
. (In the novel the location had been Oggebbio
Oggebbio
Oggebbio is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 130 km northeast of Turin and about 11 km northeast of Verbania....
).