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Comedy thriller set in a small theatrical company. To director Roberto the events bring back childhood memories when he witnessed a murder in the same theatre. However, Roberto’s eccentric elderly aunt has...
Feature film comedy. Set in turn-of-the-century Naples, Nina dreams of becoming a tragedian and instead becomes a cafe singer and starts a popular dance craze based on the can-can. For her audition piece...
Spaghetti western. Travelling Shakespearean actor and gunman Joe Clifford (Steffen) inherits a gold mine from his uncle. Returning to claim the mine, he finds town boss Berg, his uncle’s murderer, controls...
Short. New interpretation of the Shakespeare dialogue between Romeo and Juliet. Uses the poetry of Elsa Morante and Aleksandr Blok. No further details known (9/2012).
Fiction short. A burlesque modern re-working of Romeo and Juliet involving a feuding Irish-Italian family and a fight at a quarry between Mike Montague and Pete Capulet. No cast or production details known.
Experimental short inspired by Macbeth’s soliloquy, Act II, sc. 1 "Is this a dagger which I see before me,/The handle toward my hand?"
Feature film. Directed by Riccardo Freda with Rosemary Dexter as Juliet and Geronimo Meynier as Romeo.
Roman costume drama with a script based loosely on Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and Plutarch’s Lives.
Feature film version of Measure for Measure. Lavish sets, lush costumes and hundreds of extras fail to redeem the film. Variety, reviewing the US release, notes bad lighting, poor sound and unhelpful English...
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