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Don Pasquale (1940)

Don Pasquale poster
Directed by
Camillo Mastrocinque
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An aging man plans to marry a young woman but his nephew and her friends scheme to stop him. The film adapts a classic opera into a straightforward comedy.

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What happens

Don Pasquale is a 1940 Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque and starring Armando Falconi, Laura Solari and Maurizio D'Ancora. It is loosely based on Giovanni Ruffini's libretto for Gaetano Donizetti's opera buffa Don Pasquale. It was screened at the 8th Venice International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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