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Vittorio Cottafavi (30 January 1914 – 14 December 1998) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1943 and 1985. His film Il diavolo sulle colline was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
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21 October 1948
Evocation of a dramatic episode of the Second World War told by an old guard. Boarded as a non-commissioned officer on the battleship sailed from Pola and headed south.
10 March 1959
A scientist kills his rival with a perfect alibi and tries to get away with it.
04 February 1969
Television movie about Oliver Cromwell.
30 October 1954
After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.
07 October 1953
An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.
24 March 1961
Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages, including Clelia, the sexy leader of a clan of woman warriors.
27 September 1943
Leo is a young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to accompany for one night the daughter of the firm's accountant, Titi.
28 October 1973
A reconstruction of Napoleon Bonaparte's years after Waterloo, from his exile to St. Helena until his death under mysterious circumstances: between hopes of escape and illness, the former emperor dictates his memoirs.
31 May 1966
The operetta, which was introduced from the headlines and a preamble, is initiated by a particular ballet, which then gives way to the development of the plot, in the form of operetta-musical.
30 August 1939
The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church.
25 January 1960
Two cattle farmers wish to crossbreed their cattle to ensure the continuity of their respective herds.
16 February 1945
Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.
02 July 1962
In a dystopian future, two superpowers have shared the Earth, and both try to conquer the Solar System.
20 August 1972
An adaptation of Joseph Conrad's first novel, taking us to the Malaysian mangrove forests against a backdrop of colonial decadence.
16 January 1948
A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.
27 November 1959
Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the city, he meets Berenice, a mysterious and beautiful dancer who falls in love.
10 February 1953
A young Venetian officer falls in love with a slave girl.
12 August 1960
A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler.
09 February 1962
New to Livorno, a man meets a crying woman on a bridge at midnight, in this tale of love and heartbreak.
17 February 1967
In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient theater.
18 September 1963
In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an ample profit.
30 December 1964
Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.
12 March 1960
Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations.
31 December 1967
A comedy of misunderstandings caused by words. Walter Chiari is a stage actor who tries to cash a check at a public office.
18 September 1954
Three jailbirds— a surgeon, a robber, and a wrongly convicted man— must adjust to their lives once released from prison.
19 August 1961
King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle.
24 April 1953
A group of royalists during the French Revolution make several attempts to rescue Marie Antoinette from prison, in this combination of genres: swashbuckler, melodrama, psychological drama, and historical tragedy.
04 November 1961
On the Carso front in 1915, Italians and Austrians fight each other without mercy in a suffocating battle.
07 July 1970
"The wolves" are the commanders of a regiment of revolutionary troops committed to defending France's borders during the Reign of Terror.
26 May 1957
Based on the short story "Sept petites croix dans un carnet" by Georges Simenon. "Sette piccole croci" was the first drama, non-series (what is today called a TV movie), as well as the first police thriller to be broadcast on Italian television.
20 November 1981
The story of a peasant girl of fifteen, Mariute, who comes down from the Carnia mountains to the Friulian plains with her mother at the beginning of the summer.
12 October 1958
Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius.
28 April 1948
A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.
29 December 1954
Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she barely knows.
21 September 1949
Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.
22 October 1952
An official, betrayed by his lady servant, joins musketeers such as Athos, while she turns into a countess and a spy that will eventually be executed.
04 January 1952
In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small production company, Novissima Film.
28 January 1965
A film by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the Leo Tolstoy play.
02 July 1962
A TV adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play.
16 May 1967
The trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux.
28 October 1967
A married couple is completely absorbed in their heated argument and does not notice that war is raging outside, until bombs begin to fall on their house, devastating it.
05 May 1967
Don Giovanni is a handsome gentleman whom women find irresistible; he is equally successful in overcoming his male rivals.
16 May 1967
TV film based on the search for the nazi Adolf Eichmann by Simon Wiesenthal.
12 November 1965
A rich, corrupt Southern family plots a nefarious business deal, whilst Regina debates murdering her husband.
09 January 1954
Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi.
22 October 1974
Based on a chapter of 'Una questione privata' by Beppe Fenoglio, 'La torta di Riccio' recounts an episode of the Resistance.
