Figaro and His Great Day
1931 film
- November 1931 (1931-11)
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Figaro e la sua gran giornata (in English, Figaro and his Great Day) is a 1931 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Gianfranco Giachetti, Leda Gloria and Ugo Ceseri.[1]
It was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gastone Medin and Ivo Perilli.
Synopsis
In a small town in the Veneto region, an attempt to stage Rossini's The Barber of Seville is threatened when the prima donna loses her voice. An attempt is made to replace her with a singing student, but both her father and boyfriend object.
Cast
- Gianfranco Giachetti as Piero Basoto
- Leda Gloria as Nina
- Ugo Ceseri as Rantoloni, l'impresario
- Maurizio D'Ancora as Asdrubale Chiodini
- Umberto Sacripante as Gedeone, il portaceste
- Olga Capri as Caterina, la fantesca
- Gemma Schirato as Costanza Basoto
- Augusto Bandini as Il maestro Salsuga
- Umberto Cocchi as Felicetti, il farmacista
- Giuseppe Gambardella as Gargaturi, il basso
- Achille Majeroni as Il padre di Nina
- Alfredo Martinelli as Sivoloni, il basso
- Angelo Parigi as Il tenore Pancrazi
- Carlo Ranieri as Un membro del circolo
- Raimondo Van Riel as Un delegato di polizia
- Gino Viotti as Il sindaco
References
- ^ Celli & Cottino-Jones p.192
Bibliography
- Carlo Celli & Margo Cottino-Jones. A New Guide to Italian Cinema. Springer, 2007.
External links
- Figaro and His Great Day at IMDb
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Films directed by Mario Camerini
- The House of Pulcini (1924)
- Maciste in Africa (1926)
- Kif Tebbi (1928)
- Rails (1929)
- Figaro and His Great Day (1931)
- The Last Adventure (1932)
- What Scoundrels Men Are! (1932)
- Giallo (1933)
- Like the Leaves (1935)
- I'll Give a Million (1935)
- But It's Nothing Serious (1936)
- The Great Appeal (1936)
- Mister Max (1937)
- The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1938)
- Department Store (1939)
- The Document (1939)
- Heartbeat (1939)
- One Hundred Thousand Dollars (1940)
- A Romantic Adventure (1940)
- The Betrothed (1941)
- Love Story (1942)
- Two Anonymous Letters (1945)
- The Captain's Daughter (1947)
- The Street Has Many Dreams (1948)
- Outlaw Girl (1950)
- Honeymoon Deferred (1951)
- Wife for a Night (1952)
- Sunday Heroes (1952)
- Ulysses (1954)
- The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955)
- The Awakening (1956)
- Holiday Island (1957)
- Run with the Devil (1960)
- ...And Suddenly It's Murder! (1960)
- The Italian Brigands (1961)
- Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance (1963)
- The Almost Perfect Crime (1966)
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