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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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