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Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1956)

Rigoletto e la sua tragedia poster
Directed by
Flavio Calzavara
Genre
musical film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film is a musical melodrama based on Verdi's opera Rigoletto. It tells the story of a hunchbacked court jester whose daughter is seduced by a Duke.

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What happens

Rigoletto or Rigoletto and His Tragedy (Italian: Rigoletto e la sua tragedia) is a 1956 Italian musical melodrama film written and directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Aldo Silvani and Gerard Landry. It is based on the 1851 Giuseppe Verdi opera Rigoletto and incorporated music from that work. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franco Lolli. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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