Fausto Tozzi

Fausto Tozzi

Born: October 29, 1921
Died: December 10, 1978
in Roma, Italy
Fausto TozziFausto Tozzi (29 October 1921 – 10 December 1978) was an Italian film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 70 films between 1951 and 1978. He wrote the script for The Defeated Victor, which was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He also directed one film, Trastevere.

Born in Rome, after graduating in accountancy Tozzi made several humble jobs, including peddler and bird taxidermist. He was introduced in the cinema industry by Sergio Amidei, for whom he worked as a stenographer. Through Amidei, Tozzi met Renato Castellani, with whom he collaborated as a screenwriter for Professor, My Son (1946) and Under the Sun of Rome (1948, based on a Tozzi's original story). In the early 1950s, he also started working as an assistant director and as an actor, sometimes being cast in main roles. His typical roles were of hardmen and villains. He was also active on stage, where he is best known for the role of Gnecco in Rugantino, and on television, in which he is well known for his performance as Menelaus in L'Odissea.

Tozzi died of respiratory failure, aged 57.

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The Black Stallion
Title: The Black Stallion
Character: Rescue Captain
Released: October 13, 1979
Type: Movie
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
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Title: Origins of the Mafia
Character: Nicu Borelli
Released: November 19, 1976
Type: TV
Mini series about the origins of the Italian mafia
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Fear in the City
Title: Fear in the City
Character: Esposito
Released: September 14, 1976
Type: Movie
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.
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Big Pot
Title: Big Pot
Character: Mark Lemmon
Released: June 15, 1976
Type: Movie
A gang of robbers takes possession of a load of diamonds.. Only one of them, Mark Lemmon, is arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. But before being captured, the gangster had managed to hide the loot in a sewer. Five years later, Mackenzie, an insurer, pretending to be a mafia boss, assigns three petty criminals to arrange his escape. Once free, Lemmon finds the booty but now he has to deal with his new 'partners'.
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Street People
Title: Street People
Character: Luigi Nicoletta
Released: March 30, 1976
Type: Movie
A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
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Oh, Serafina!
Title: Oh, Serafina!
Character: Carlo Vigeva
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Augusto Valle is a successful young industrialist who weds Palmira, the girl working in his factory, and the two have a child despite the infant's uncertain legitimacy. Scheming to control her husband's fortune, Palmira has affairs with both the mayor and the judge to have Augusto committed to a mental institution. While there, he falls in love with Serafina Vitali, a young woman who was also put away.
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The Left Hand of the Law
Title: The Left Hand of the Law
Character: brigadiere Giulio Costello
Released: September 3, 1975
Type: Movie
After a couple of 'special squad' cops are gunned down while chasing some kidnappers, the head of the squad takes it really personally! His violent path to find the kidnappers leads him to the upper echelons of the government. Now, the powers-that-be don't want to be found out and decide it's time to kill one more cop...
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Cry of a Prostitute
Title: Cry of a Prostitute
Character: Don Ricuzzo Cantimo
Released: April 4, 1974
Type: Movie
The gangster Tony Aniante in the middle of a feud between two mafia families. He manipulates both families into believing he is on their side and are just waiting for the right moment to take the initiative...
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Crazy Joe
Title: Crazy Joe
Character: Frank
Released: February 8, 1974
Type: Movie
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
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Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Title: Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Character: Massara
Released: November 23, 1973
Type: Movie
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.
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Chino
Title: Chino
Character: Cruz
Released: September 14, 1973
Type: Movie
Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his door looking for work and a roof over his head. Reluctantly, Chino agrees to take him in and teach him the art of raising, breaking and breeding horses, until the pair finally begin to accept each other.
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The Funny Face of the Godfather
Title: The Funny Face of the Godfather
Character: Tony Malonzo
Released: May 3, 1973
Type: Movie
The Godfather Don Vito Monreale knows, by chance, the Italian-American singer Nick Bouillon. Since the two are alike, Don Vito decided to exploit this similarity in his favour.
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The Bloody Hands of the Law
Title: The Bloody Hands of the Law
Character: Nicolò Patrovita
Released: March 11, 1973
Type: Movie
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. Catching the killers proves difficult as anyone who knows anything dies in unexplained circumstances. It becomes evident that a large and powerful criminal organization is behind the murders, and that they have links within the police force. It is up to Lt. Carmine to see that justice prevails, using any means necessary.
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The Sicilian Connection
Title: The Sicilian Connection
Character: Don Vincenzo Russo
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.
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The Valachi Papers
Title: The Valachi Papers
Character: Albert Anastasia
Released: January 6, 1972
Type: Movie
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.
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Trastevere
Title: Trastevere
Character: Himself at St. Maria in Trastevere (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1971
Type: Movie
A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
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Between Miracles
Title: Between Miracles
Character: Primario
Released: March 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Title: Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Character: Il marito eschimese
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
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The Deserter
Title: The Deserter
Character: Orozco
Released: December 4, 1970
Type: Movie
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.
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A Man Called Sledge
Title: A Man Called Sledge
Character: Maximum security prisoner
Released: November 14, 1970
Type: Movie
James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
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The Demise of Father Mouret
Title: The Demise of Father Mouret
Character: Jeanbernat
Released: October 14, 1970
Type: Movie
Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Albine, the beautiful carefree niece of the outspoken atheist Jeanbernat. After Serge and Albine fall in love, Serge recovers his memory and realizes the grave sin he has committed.
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The Appointment
Title: The Appointment
Character: Renzo
Released: May 22, 1969
Type: Movie
Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls.
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Odissea
Title: Odissea
Character: Menelao
Released: March 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.
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Title: The Odyssey
Character: Menelao
Released: March 24, 1968
Type: TV
Italian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.
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The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid
Title: The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid
Character: Pat Garrett
Released: March 9, 1967
Type: Movie
This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.
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Knives of the Avenger
Title: Knives of the Avenger
Character: Hagen
Released: May 30, 1966
Type: Movie
A mysterious knife-throwing viking warrior protects a young peasant woman and her young son from the clutches of a evil regent bent on claiming the title of king and the woman for himself.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
Title: The Agony and the Ecstasy
Character: Foreman
Released: September 16, 1965
Type: Movie
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
Title: The Agony and the Ecstasy
Character: uomo
Released: September 16, 1965
Type: Movie
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
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Title: I Spy
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
I Spy is an American television secret-agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed Robert Culp as international tennis player Kelly Robinson with Bill Cosby as his trainer, Alexander Scott. The characters' travels as ostensible "tennis bums", Robinson playing talented tennis as an amateur with the wealthy in return for food and lodging, and Scott tagging along, provided a cover story concealing their roles as top agents for the Pentagon. Their real work usually kept them busy chasing villains, spies, and beautiful women. The creative forces behind the show were writers David Friedkin and Morton Fine and cinematographer Fouad Said. Together they formed Three F Productions under the aegis of Desilu Studios where the show was produced. Fine and Friedkin were co-producers and head writers, and wrote the scripts for 16 episodes, one of which Friedkin directed. Friedkin also dabbled in acting and appeared in two episodes in the first season. Actor-producer Sheldon Leonard, best known for playing gangster roles in the 1940s and '50s, was the executive producer. He also played a gangster-villain role in two episodes and appeared in a third show as himself in a humorous cameo. In addition, he directed one episode and served as occasional second-unit director throughout the series.
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Pyramid of the Sun God
Title: Pyramid of the Sun God
Released: April 17, 1965
Type: Movie
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.
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Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
Title: Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
Character: Benito Juarez
Released: March 4, 1965
Type: Movie
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
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The Visit
Title: The Visit
Character: Darvis (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1964
Type: Movie
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
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The Spy
Title: The Spy
Character: Paoli
Released: February 27, 1964
Type: Movie
The British Admiralty is worried: several cargo ships carrying troops have mysteriously jumped off Gibraltar. The Admiralty calls in the Intelligence Service to find out the cause of the destruction before new units arrive. Lieutenant Jackson, of the Marine Infantry Regiment stationed in Gibraltar, spends all his duty time in Tangier, where he is attracted by his love of poker and a beautiful dancer, Lola. Despite the objurgations of his general and the tender friendship of Cathie, his general's daughter, he can't stop playing and loses a very large sum one evening.
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Scheherazade
Title: Scheherazade
Character: Barmak
Released: May 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.
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The Shortest Day
Title: The Shortest Day
Character: Soldato combattente (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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Commando
Title: Commando
Character: Brascia
Released: November 14, 1962
Type: Movie
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
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The Swordsman of Siena
Title: The Swordsman of Siena
Character: Hugo
Released: October 19, 1962
Type: Movie
A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.
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The Wonders of Aladdin
Title: The Wonders of Aladdin
Character: Grand Vizier
Released: October 31, 1961
Type: Movie
Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.
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El Cid
Title: El Cid
Character: Dolfos
Released: October 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
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Saint-Tropez Blues
Title: Saint-Tropez Blues
Character: Nino Trabucci
Released: July 21, 1961
Type: Movie
With her parents away, Anne-Marie drops her studies to spend eight days in Saint-Tropez with her friend Jean-Paul. They are soon caught up in the Saint-Tropez whirlwind. Jean-Paul is seduced by a wealthy woman while Anne-Marie ends up alone with a young man she meets along the way.
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Constantine and the Cross
Title: Constantine and the Cross
Character: Hadrian
Released: June 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.
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The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Title: The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Character: Warden Wolf
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".
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Questo amore ai confini del mondo
Title: Questo amore ai confini del mondo
Character: Don Claudio
Released: October 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Argentinian-Italian western features a rancher and landowner who makes a common mistake - he marries the wrong woman, a dazzling showgirl.
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The Night of the Great Attack
Title: The Night of the Great Attack
Character: Zanco
Released: October 29, 1959
Type: Movie
In 15th century Romagna rules violence and fright. Cesare Borgia wants to incorporate the duchy of Catherine Sforza. But in between is the independent county Fabis, which he wants to bring into his possession.
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Dagli Appennini alle Ande
Title: Dagli Appennini alle Ande
Character: Marco's father
Released: September 3, 1959
Type: Movie
A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.
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Un uomo facile
Title: Un uomo facile
Released: April 24, 1959
Type: Movie
The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen from the point of view of the women the boxers love. One of the pugilists is a rookie on the rise and his sister has married the reigning champion. Now the champ is getting older and less able to hold his own against the newcomers -- including his brother-in-law. As his fortunes begin to decline, his wife whom he married while affluent is slowly forced to deal with the difficulties of poverty. This Italian drama was an entry in the 1959 Berlin Film Festival.
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Quai des illusions
Title: Quai des illusions
Released: January 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she gives birth to a baby who dies shortly afterwards. Distraught, she steals a parentless child from a maternity hospital. Arrested and tried, she is acquitted, only to find Fausto innocent.
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Quando gli angeli piangono
Title: Quando gli angeli piangono
Character: Piero
Released: August 8, 1958
Type: Movie
After the end of World War II, a man comes back to his former fiancée and finds out that she is married to an older man.
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Il cielo brucia
Title: Il cielo brucia
Character: Marchi
Released: June 14, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Tanks of El Alamein
Title: The Tanks of El Alamein
Character: Capt. Valerio Bruschi
Released: September 19, 1957
Type: Movie
Italian move on the battle of El Alamein
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Castle of the Banned Lovers
Title: Castle of the Banned Lovers
Character: Olimpio Calvetti
Released: September 6, 1956
Type: Movie
The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrezia, who has a relationship with her other stepson, James. The stepmother and stepson-lover plan to kill Francesco. And when the latter dies accidentally, they decide to put the blame on Beatrice and Olimpio.
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The Red Cloak
Title: The Red Cloak
Character: Luca de Bardi
Released: September 17, 1955
Type: Movie
Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some point a masked knight wearing a red cloak enters the scene. He is the son of the killed. These and the Flemish are also rivals in love. In the final duel the Flemish will be eliminated.
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La ciudad perdida
Title: La ciudad perdida
Character: Rafael
Released: April 11, 1955
Type: Movie
Rafa, a Communist Republican exiled after the Spanish Civil War, returns to his hometown to carry out an attack against the imposed tyrannical regime, but the mission fails and, in his attempt to escape, he kidnaps a lady of high society.
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La ladra
Title: La ladra
Character: Nino
Released: March 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A shady lawyer, an accomplice of thieves and fences, entrusts him to Nino, the leader of a gang that is preparing a particularly valuable coup.
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Songs from all over Italy
Title: Songs from all over Italy
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
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Divisione Folgore
Title: Divisione Folgore
Character: Sergente Turchi
Released: December 30, 1954
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.
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Casta diva
Title: Casta diva
Character: Gaetano Donizetti
Released: December 27, 1954
Type: Movie
As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
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House of Ricordi
Title: House of Ricordi
Character: Arrigo Boito
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
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I cinque dell'Adamello
Title: I cinque dell'Adamello
Character: Leonida
Released: November 30, 1954
Type: Movie
The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.
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In the Eddy of Sin
Title: In the Eddy of Sin
Character: Alberto Valli
Released: October 30, 1954
Type: Movie
After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.
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The Hunt
Title: The Hunt
Character: Marco / Musoduro
Released: December 9, 1953
Type: Movie
A young poacher is wrongly accused of killing the father of the woman he loves.
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The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo
Title: The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo
Character: Luogotenente Magistrelli
Released: October 15, 1952
Type: Movie
In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.
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Brothers of Italy
Title: Brothers of Italy
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Capodistria, 1915. Captain Nazario Sauro, an officer in the Austrian Navy, is one of those patriots who militate for Italy to enter World War I. When he is about to be arrested by the Austrian authorities he chooses to desert. Once in Venice he enlists in the Italian Navy and becomes an officer in a submarine where his perfect knowledge of the coast of Istria proves particularly helpful. But when his submarine runs aground near the island of Munje, he is captured by the Austrians, sentenced to death for high treason and hanged in 1916.
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The City Defends Itself
Title: The City Defends Itself
Character: Luigi Girosi
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.
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Women Without Names
Title: Women Without Names
Released: March 23, 1950
Type: Movie
This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for displaced women after the end of World War II. Among them, Anna, a Yugoslav, who has seen her husband killed in Trieste by political enemies. She is pregnant and her one and only aim right now is her baby to be born. Janka, a beautiful Polish girl who has lost her mind, is reunited with the physician who sent her to a brothel for Nazi officers. As for Yvonne, a light-hearted French woman, she is prepared to do anything to leave the place, including to marry out with an Albanese ice cream man, despite his unappetizing looks. At least,she will stop being a woman without a name.