Death Anniversary: Luchino Visconti — March 17, 1976
Luchino Visconti died in Rome on 17 March 1976. Thirty-three years earlier his first film had divided the country: young […]
Luchino Visconti died in Rome on 17 March 1976. Thirty-three years earlier his first film had divided the country: young […]
Luchino Visconti was born in Milan on 2 November 1906, into the Visconti di Modrone family. His first film as
Ninety-six Italian films were distributed in 1942, against forty-five in 1938: the peak of a production boom that began when the American studios walked out of the Italian market. The year read through the buildings that produced it, showed it, and did not survive it.
Maria Cebotari died in Vienna in 1949, thirty-nine years old and at the height of a career that had run
Maria Cebotari was born at Chișinău, then in Bessarabia, in 1910. She became one of the leading sopranos of the
Carmine Gallone died at Frascati on 11 March 1973. Two of the Italian films of 1942 were his: Odessa in
Carmine Gallone was born at Taggia, in the province of Imperia, on 10 September 1885. In 1942 he directed Odessa
Francesco De Robertis died in Rome on 3 February 1959. He had filmed real crews rather than actors, a method
Francesco De Robertis was born at San Marco in Lamis, in the province of Foggia, on 16 October 1902. A
Goffredo Alessandrini died in Rome on 16 May 1978. His two-part Noi vivi – Addio Kira of 1942 was made