Casta Diva (1935 film)
Casta Diva | |
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Directed by | Carmine Gallone |
Produced by |
Giuseppe Amato William Szekeley |
Written by | Walter Reisch |
Starring |
Sandra Palmieri Gualtiero Tumiati Achille Majeroni |
Cinematography |
Franz Planer Massimo Terzano |
Edited by | Fernando Tropea |
Distributed by | Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (P.A.C.) |
Release dates |
14 June 1935 - France 10 August 1935 - Italy 19 September 1935 - Denmark 2 December 1935 - Portugal 4 October 1937 - USA |
Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Casta Diva is a 1935 Italian musical drama film, directed by Carmine Gallone. The film won Best Italian Film at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival. An English-language version The Divine Spark was made at the same time, also directed by Gallone and starring Eggerth. Gallone remade the film in 1954 in Technicolor.
Plot
Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini and his problems with his opera Norma (1831).
Norma tells the passionate love story of a Gallican priestess and a Roman proconsul (governor of a province). The film is unique because it uses abstract paintings-in-motion to express the passion between the two main characters.
Cast
- Mártha Eggerth ... Maddelena Fumarol
- Sandro Palmieri ... Vincenzo Bellini
- Gualtiero Tumiati ... Niccolò Paganini
- Lamberto Picasso ... Fumaroli
- Achille Majeroni ... Gioacchino Rossini
- Lina Marengo ... a guest
External links
Casta Diva at the Internet Movie Database
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