Vittorio Cottafavi Movies

It is in the late 1930s, and Cesare Pavese, a writer, with two of his friends meets a very uninhibited noble couple.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the Leo Tolstoy play.

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice...

Adaptation of Shakespeare's play for Italian TV.

In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an...

Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.

Three jailbirds— a surgeon, a robber, and a wrongly convicted man— must adjust to their lives once released from prison.

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio...

A comedy of misunderstandings caused by words. Walter Chiari is a stage actor who tries to cash a check at a public office.

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

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

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...

Television movie about Oliver Cromwell.

On the Carso front in 1915, Italians and Austrians fight each other without mercy in a suffocating battle. In the trenches, soldiers discuss their...

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

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...

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...

Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi.

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