Don Pasquale (film)

Don Pasquale

Directed by	Camillo Mastrocinque
Produced by	Giovanni Addessi
Written by	Alessandro De Stefani Giuseppe De Santis Camillo Mastrocinque Gianni Puccini
Starring	Armando Falconi Laura Solari
Music by	Alessandro Cicognini
Cinematography	Carlo Montuori
Release dates	1940 (1940)
Language	Italian

Don Pasquale is a 1940 Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque and starring Armando Falconi, Laura Solari and Maurizio D'Ancora. It is loosely based on Giovanni Ruffini's libretto for Gaetano Donizetti's opera buffa Don Pasquale.^[1]^[2] It was screened at the 8th Venice International Film Festival.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Armando Falconi as Don Pasquale
Laura Solari as Norina/ Sofronia
Maurizio D'Ancora as Ernesto
Greta Gonda as Arianna
Franco Coop as Dr. Malatesta
Fausto Guerzoni as Remigio
Diana Torrieri as Zelinda
Marcello Giorda as Notary
Aristide Baghetti as Liborio
Nico Pepe as Sebastiano, The Painter
Elio Steiner as Fabrizio
Gino Sabbatini as The Abbot
Giuseppe Pierozzi as Tancredi
Giuseppe Zago as Olimpio
Oreste Bilancia as Cicisbeo #1
Nino Eller as Cicisbeo #2
Claudio Ermelli as Cicisbeo #3
Annette Ciarli as Girl at the Theatre
Pina Renzi as A Commoner

References

1 2 Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
1 2 Francesco Savio. Ma l'amore no. Realismo, formalismo, propaganda e telefoni bianchi nel cinema italiano di regime (1930-1943). Sonzogno Edit., 1975.

External links

Don Pasquale at the Internet Movie Database

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