Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946)

Original title

Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma

Directed by

Carmine Gallone

Genre

drama film, musical film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During the German occupation of Rome, two opera singers work with the Italian resistance and hide a British soldier. The film combines staged opera performances with a wartime resistance story.

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What happens

Before Him All Rome Trembled (Italian: Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma) is a 1946 Italian musical war melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Anna Magnani, Tito Gobbi and Hans Hinrich. Ada 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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