Before Him All Rome Trembled | |
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Directed by | Carmine Gallone |
Written by |
Gherardo Gherardi Gaspare Cataldo Carmine Gallone |
Starring |
Anna Magnani Tito Gobbi Hans Hinrich Gino Sinimberghi |
Music by | Renzo Rossellini |
Cinematography | Anchise Brizzi |
Edited by | Niccolò Lazzari |
Production
company |
Excelsa Film
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Distributed by | Minerva Film |
Release date
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2 October 1946 |
Running time
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98 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Before Him All Rome Trembled (Italian:Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma) is a 1946 Italian musical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Anna Magnani, Tito Gobbi and Hans Hinrich. Ado and Marco are a pair of opera singers, who moonlight working for the Italian resistance at the time of the German occupation of Rome during the Second World War. They are sheltering a British soldier with whom they make contact with the advancing Allied forces. Sylistically the film is a hybrid between filmed performances of opera, and a neorealistic resistance melodrama.
The title refers to Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, which is performed during the film.