Vittorio Cottafavi Movies

A young Venetian officer falls in love with a slave girl.

A group of royalists during the French Revolution make several attempts to rescue Marie Antoinette from prison, in this combination of genres:...

A reconstruction of Napoleon Bonaparte's years after Waterloo, from his exile to St. Helena until his death under mysterious circumstances: between...

Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.

Evocation of a dramatic episode of the Second World War told by an old guard. Boarded as a non-commissioned officer on the battleship sailed from...

An adaptation of Molière's play.

The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic...

The operetta, which was introduced from the headlines and a preamble, is initiated by a particular ballet, which then gives way to the development of...

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

The plot by a group of German officers to depose of Adolf Hitler in July 1944.

Italian adaptation of a novel by Simenon.

Based on a chapter of 'Una questione privata' by Beppe Fenoglio, 'La torta di Riccio' recounts an episode of the Resistance. A Fascist officer of the...

An adaptation of Joseph Conrad's first novel, taking us to the Malaysian mangrove forests against a backdrop of colonial decadence.

The trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux.

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.

Based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils.

Don Giovanni is a handsome gentleman whom women find irresistible; he is equally successful in overcoming his male rivals. Among these, however, is a...

In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small...

Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she...

A scientist kills his rival with a perfect alibi and tries to get away with it.