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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Complete Filmography

Carmen di Trastevere
1962
Director, Producer, Screenplay
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
1962
Director, Screenplay, Story
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
1961
Director
Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.

Carthage in Flames
1960
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.

Polikuschka
1958
Producer, Director

Michael Strogoff
1956
Director
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
1956
Producer, Director, Writer
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
1955
Director
Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recomme...

Madame Butterfly
1954
Director, Screenplay
Japanese-Italian adaptation of Puccini's opera.

Casta diva
1954
Story, Screenplay, Director
As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.

House of Ricordi
1954
Director, Screenplay, Story
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
1954
Director
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
1954
Writer, Director
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
1953
Director, Story, Screenplay
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
1951
Director, Story, Producer
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
1950
Director, Producer
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
1950
Director, Screenplay
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
A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.

Faust and the Devil
1949
Director
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
1949
Producer, Director, Screenplay
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
1947
Director
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
1946
Story, Screenplay, Director
An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

Biraghin
1946
Birdaghin is a dancer at La Scala in Milan whose rapid success also quickly goes to her head. Fortunately, everything will be fine.

Biraghin
1946
Director
Birdaghin is a dancer at La Scala in Milan whose rapid success also quickly goes to her head. Fortunately, everything will be fine.

Rigoletto
1946
Director, Producer
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
1945
Screenplay, Director
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
1943
Director
Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.

Harlem
1943
Director
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
1942
Director, Producer

Odessa in Flames
1942
Director
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
1941
Director
An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.

L'amante segreta
1941
Director

Tosca
1941
Screenplay
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
The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Amami, Alfredo!
1940
Director, Screenplay

Manon Lescaut
1940
Director
Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America.

Beyond Love
1940
Director
Venice Film Festival 1940
Das Abenteuer geht weiter
1939
Director
A popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him.

Marionette
1939
Director

The Dream of Butterfly
1939
Director
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
Dir gehört mein Herz
1938
Director
1938 German-Italian film.

The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
1938
Director, Screenplay, Producer
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
1938
Director
Stimme des Blutes
1938
Director
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
A romance between two temperamental singing stars. Highlights include a lengthy selection from Faust, with Gigli making a most impressive Mephistophel...
Manege
1937
Director

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
1937
Director, Screenplay, Story
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
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
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
1935
Director
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
British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.

My Heart Is Calling
1935
Director
Musical comedy. An opera singer falls for a stowaway on the way to Monte Carlo
Es leuchten die Sterne
1935
Director

My Heart Is Calling You
1934
Director
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
1934
Director
An opera company tries to get an engagement.
For Love of You
1933
Director
The second of two "Jack and Jim" musicals, starring Arthur Roscoe and Naunton Wayne.

Going Gay
1933
Director
Musical where two friends fall for the same lady and work to make her a star.

King of the Ritz
1933
Director, Producer
While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest.

King of Hotels
1932
Director
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
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
1932
Director
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
1931
Director
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
1931
Director
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
1931
Director
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
1930
Director
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
1929
Director
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
1929
Director

S.O.S. Schiff in Not
1929
Writer, Director
Die Liebeshölle
1928
Director, Novel
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
Celle qui domine
1927
Director

The Last Days of Pompeii
1926
Director
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
1925
Director
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

Il corsaro
1923
Director
Early Italian pirate adventure.
Il poeta, la fanciulla e la laguna
1922
Director
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
1920
Director

The Shadow of a Throne
1920
Writer, Director
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

A Doll Wife
1919
Director
Soava Gallone plays an unhappy housewife in this Italian diva film.

Redenzione
1919
Director

The Thirteenth Man
1917
Director
La storia dei tredici is an Italian silent film starring Lyda Borelli.

Malombra
1917
Director
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
1916
Director
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
1916
Director, Writer
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
1915
Writer, Director
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
1915
Director
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
1914
Director, Writer
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
1914
Writer, Director
The painter Pierre Bernier becomes famous thanks to the portrait "The Naked Woman" which represents his model, the seductive Lolette. The very evening...