Carmine Gallone

Carmine Gallone

1886-09-10 Taggia, Liguria, Italy 90 Credits

Biography

Carmine Gallone (10 September 1885 – 11 March 1973) was an early Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer, who was also controversial for his works of pro-Fascist propaganda and historical revisionism. Considered one of Italian cinema's leading early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty-year career between 1913 and 1963.

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Carmen di Trastevere

Carmen di Trastevere

1962

Director, Producer, Screenplay

9.0
Directing Producing Writing

Carmen, wife of a certain Vincenzo detained for theft, chooses Antonio as a friend. When the husband is released from prison, he accepts the relations...

The Nun of Monza

The Nun of Monza

1962

Director, Screenplay, Story

5.0
Directing Writing Producing

Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's una...

Don Camillo: Monsignor

Don Camillo: Monsignor

1961

Director

6.9
Directing

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.

Carthage in Flames

Carthage in Flames

1960

Director, Screenplay, Producer

5.1
Directing Writing Producing

Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.

Polikuschka

Polikuschka

1958

Producer, Director

Producing Directing
Michael Strogoff

Michael Strogoff

1956

Director

6.2
Directing

When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts the...

Tosca

Tosca

1956

Producer, Director, Writer

Producing Directing Writing

A nasty Rome police chief circa 1800 forces the lover of a painter, suspected of harboring a political prisoner, to reveal the hiding place and to yie...

Don Camillo's Last Round

Don Camillo's Last Round

1955

Director

7.2
Directing

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recomme...

Madame Butterfly

Madame Butterfly

1954

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

Japanese-Italian adaptation of Puccini's opera.

Casta diva

Casta diva

1954

Story, Screenplay, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.

House of Ricordi

House of Ricordi

1954

Director, Screenplay, Story

6.2
Directing Writing

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other histo...

Mata Hari's Daughter

Mata Hari's Daughter

1954

Director

Directing

In this espionage film, Mata Hari's daughter takes the mantle from her notorious mother and entangles her self in an Asian web of intrigue and war.

Fatal Desire

Fatal Desire

1954

Writer, Director

4.0
Writing Directing

In Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else in his ...

Puccini

Puccini

1953

Director, Story, Screenplay

5.0
Directing Writing

Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life ...

The Affairs of Messalina

The Affairs of Messalina

1951

Director, Story, Producer

4.0
Directing Writing Producing

A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius,...

Taxi di notte

Taxi di notte

1950

Director, Producer

5.0
Directing Producing

A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in findi...

La forza del destino

La forza del destino

1950

Director, Screenplay

5.0
Directing Writing

Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.

The Eternal Melody

1949

Director

Directing

A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.

Faust and the Devil

Faust and the Devil

1949

Director

6.0
Directing

Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man wh...

Il trovatore

Il trovatore

1949

Producer, Director, Screenplay

Producing Directing Writing

Azucena, daughter of a Gypsy burnt at the stake, to take her revenge kidnaps one of the children of Count de Luna and raises him in secret as her own.

La signora dalle camelie

La signora dalle camelie

1947

Director

Directing

A courtesan sacrifices her relationship with a youthful admirer after the man's father pleads with her. Adapted from Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera in t...

Before Him All Rome Trembled

Before Him All Rome Trembled

1946

Story, Screenplay, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

Biraghin

Biraghin

1946

Acting

Birdaghin is a dancer at La Scala in Milan whose rapid success also quickly goes to her head. Fortunately, everything will be fine.

Biraghin

Biraghin

1946

Director

Directing

Birdaghin is a dancer at La Scala in Milan whose rapid success also quickly goes to her head. Fortunately, everything will be fine.

Rigoletto

Rigoletto

1946

Director, Producer

5.0
Directing Producing

This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. Th...

Il canto della vita

Il canto della vita

1945

Screenplay, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

During the German occupation, the only heir of a rich owner of the Roman countryside, in order to escape capture, lives hidden in a cave. To help him ...

Tristi amori

Tristi amori

1943

Director

Directing

Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.

Harlem

Harlem

1943

Director

Directing

This propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Cap...

Le due orfanelle

Le due orfanelle

1942

Director, Producer

5.0
Directing Producing
Odessa in Flames

Odessa in Flames

1942

Director

6.0
Directing

The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian troops...

Primo amore

Primo amore

1941

Director

Directing

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.

L'amante segreta

L'amante segreta

1941

Director

Directing
Tosca

Tosca

1941

Screenplay

5.3
Writing

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is fight...

Eternal Melody

1940

Director

6.0
Directing

The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Amami, Alfredo!

Amami, Alfredo!

1940

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing
Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut

1940

Director

Directing

Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America.

Beyond Love

Beyond Love

1940

Director

Directing

Venice Film Festival 1940

Das Abenteuer geht weiter

1939

Director

Directing

A popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him.

Marionette

Marionette

1939

Director

6.0
Directing
The Dream of Butterfly

The Dream of Butterfly

1939

Director

5.0
Directing

Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari...

Troppo tardi t'ho conosciuta

1939

Assistant Director

Directing

Dir gehört mein Herz

1938

Director

Directing

1938 German-Italian film.

The Life of Giuseppe Verdi

The Life of Giuseppe Verdi

1938

Director, Screenplay, Producer

10.0
Directing Writing Producing

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, c...

Solo per te

Solo per te

1938

Director

Directing

Stimme des Blutes

1938

Director

1.0
Directing

Two brothers (Albert Matterstock and Attila Hoerbiger), who are trapeze artists, are getting along just fine until Hoerbiger runs off with his brother...

Mother Song

1937

Director

5.0
Directing

A romance between two temperamental singing stars. Highlights include a lengthy selection from Faust, with Gigli making a most impressive Mephistophel...

Manege

1937

Director

Directing
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

1937

Director, Screenplay, Story

5.5
Directing Writing

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the...

Opernring

1936

Director

Directing

An ordinary Viennese taxi driver, Toni Kowalski, wanders into a diner, where a singing competition is taking place, and decides to take part in it. He...

Wenn die Musik nicht wär

1935

Director

Directing

The great Franz Liszt helps a struggling, unworldly piano tutor advance to a position in Munich, and ward off a villainous foreign competitor for his ...

Casta diva

Casta diva

1935

Director

5.8
Directing

Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here played by American actor Phill...

The Divine Spark

1935

Director

Directing

British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.

My Heart Is Calling

My Heart Is Calling

1935

Director

10.0
Directing

Musical comedy. An opera singer falls for a stowaway on the way to Monte Carlo

Es leuchten die Sterne

1935

Director

Directing
My Heart Is Calling You

My Heart Is Calling You

1934

Director

Directing

Director Rosé and his opera company travel to Monte Carlo where they expect an engagément to perform at the opera house. During the boat trip Mario, t...

My Heart Calls You

My Heart Calls You

1934

Director

Directing

An opera company tries to get an engagement.

For Love of You

1933

Director

Directing

The second of two "Jack and Jim" musicals, starring Arthur Roscoe and Naunton Wayne.

Going Gay

Going Gay

1933

Director

6.0
Directing

Musical where two friends fall for the same lady and work to make her a star.

King of the Ritz

King of the Ritz

1933

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest.

King of Hotels

King of Hotels

1932

Director

Directing

A hotel worker who is really an aristocrat falls for a lady customer but instead of getting married he prefers to stay at work and get what female com...

A Son from America

1932

Director

Directing

An unemployed youth pretends to be the long lost son of an elderly industrialist but after helping the man with his business decides to confess his di...

Sailor's Song

Sailor's Song

1932

Director

Directing

Georget is a happy-go-luck seafarer who'd rather sing than work -- or be faithful to his wife. Together with his sailor pal Marius, they decide to che...

Dragnet Night

Dragnet Night

1931

Director

5.8
Directing

A sailor, who meets a lovely music hall singer during a police raid, falls in love. In a contest at a fair, he defeats a former boxing champ. The ex-c...

My Cousin From Warsaw

My Cousin From Warsaw

1931

Director

5.2
Directing

Archibald Burel, a banker, has had enough of his wife cheating on him, and with his best friend Hubert into the bargain! One day he has (at least that...

City of Song

City of Song

1931

Director

Directing

A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by an English woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege.

The Singing City

The Singing City

1930

Director

5.7
Directing

A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by a Viennese woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege. This film was released as a Ge...

Das Land ohne Frauen

Das Land ohne Frauen

1929

Director

Directing

A group of 413 women answer an ad looking for British women to sail to and marry miners in Australia. One does not survive the voyage, and conflict ar...

La ville des mille joies

La ville des mille joies

1929

Director

Directing
S.O.S. Schiff in Not

S.O.S. Schiff in Not

1929

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

Die Liebeshölle

1928

Director, Novel

Directing

After searching in vain through Europe for her boy after 1917, a Russian ballerina settles in with a Paris artist, which arouses the ire of the man's ...

Die Stadt der tausend Freuden

1927

Director

Directing

Celle qui domine

1927

Director

Directing
The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii

1926

Director

5.2
Directing

Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi’s The Last Days of Pompeii 1926 stages in sumptuous colour tinting the epic fall of the ancient city buried by Moun...

La cavalcata ardente

La cavalcata ardente

1925

Director

Directing

In Naples in 1860, a girl named Grazia, a strongly pro-Flobonic Montechiaro, is betrothed to the general of Santafè. She is secretly in love with John...

I volti dell'amore

1924

Director

Directing
Il corsaro

Il corsaro

1923

Director

5.2
Directing

Early Italian pirate adventure.

Il poeta, la fanciulla e la laguna

1922

Director

Directing

A Venetian girl falls in love with a poet. But the latter is too cynical and boastful to bother to reply to the young girl's passionate letter and ins...

Nemesis

Nemesis

1920

Director

Directing
The Shadow of a Throne

The Shadow of a Throne

1920

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

Violette Miroy is a young woman in Paris whose well-off parents recently died having largely spent all their resources. She meets the mysterious Georg...

Amleto e il suo clown

1920

Director

Directing
A Doll Wife

A Doll Wife

1919

Director

Directing

Soava Gallone plays an unhappy housewife in this Italian diva film.

Redenzione

Redenzione

1919

Director

Directing
The Thirteenth Man

The Thirteenth Man

1917

Director

Directing

La storia dei tredici is an Italian silent film starring Lyda Borelli.

Malombra

Malombra

1917

Director

5.2
Directing

Marina di Malombra (Borelli) lives in a castle prior to her wedding. She begins to read letters written by an ancestor called Cecilia. She finds out t...

Avatar

Avatar

1916

Director

4.8
Directing

Based on Théophile Gautier's novel of the same name, the film tells of the tragic love affair of Ottavio de Saville. He falls madly in love with Madam...

La falena

La falena

1916

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Thea is a sculptor who is diagnosed with tuberculosis before she marries Filippo. After abandoning him, her health begins to decline. She organizes a ...

The Wedding March

The Wedding March

1915

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

Grazia de Plessans abandons her studies in a convent following a mystical crisis. In her paternal house, she studies music together with maestro Claud...

Flower of Evil

Flower of Evil

1915

Director

4.2
Directing

Lyda is a prostitute with no education and no hope for the future. Unfortunately, this ungrateful job leads her to have an unwanted pregnancy, and onc...

The Toreador's Romance

The Toreador's Romance

1914

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

A powerful dramatic plot constructed around the "Human Triangle" handled in such a way that no bad taste is left in the mouth. Scenes in a big bull ri...

The Naked Truth

The Naked Truth

1914

Writer, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

The painter Pierre Bernier becomes famous thanks to the portrait "The Naked Woman" which represents his model, the seductive Lolette. The very evening...