Known For
Complete Filmography

Love and Marriage
1964
Writer
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.

The Avenger of Venice
1964
Screenplay
Rolando, who was close to marrying the daughter of the Doge, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in Venice. Digging a tu...

The Ghost
1963
Screenplay
A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he...

The Masseuses
1962
Screenplay
Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseu...

Marco Polo
1962
Writer
Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

The Witch's Curse
1962
Writer
Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.

Il mio amico Benito
1962
Story, Screenplay
A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear fri...

Pontius Pilate
1962
Screenplay
The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned C...

Erik the Conqueror
1961
Story, Screenplay
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nea...

Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
1961
Story, Screenplay
Samson must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors.

Joseph and His Brethren
1961
Screenplay
A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to his...

Atlas Against the Cyclops
1961
Screenplay, Story
Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the ...

Love, the Italian Way
1960
Story, Screenplay
A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.

Genitori in blue-jeans
1960
Story, Screenplay
Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.

Gastone
1960
Screenplay
During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Etto...

Death of a Friend
1960
Story
Two young people trickle, steal and exploit prostitutes.

The Moralist
1959
Screenplay
The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to ...

Winter Holidays
1959
Screenplay, Story
Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hote...

Domenica è sempre domenica
1958
Story, Screenplay
A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person...

Non sono più guaglione
1957
Screenplay
A mechanic falls in love with a girl who aspires to become a diva.

La canzone del destino
1957
Writer

Desert Warrior
1957
Screenplay
Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The ...

Occhi senza luce
1956
Screenplay
A blind girl and a disabled singer fall in love.

Altair
1956
Story
In the military academy of the Nisida Air Force a new course begins which sees among the new recruits called "chicks": Giorgio, forced by his father a...

Scampolo 53
1955
Screenplay
A young girl meets by chance an engineer who lives with an unbearable mistress. After abandoning his mistress, the engineer has to leave for Sardinia....

Songs from all over Italy
1955
Screenplay

Divisione Folgore
1954
Screenplay
In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and...

A Free Woman
1954
Adaptation, Screenplay
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 b...

Il cardinale Lambertini
1954
Screenplay
Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love ...

In the Eddy of Sin
1954
Screenplay
After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.

Rosso e nero
1954
Writer

Submarine Attack
1954
Screenplay
During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional s...

The Slave of Sin
1954
Story
A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.

Gran varietà
1954
Writer
A musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and Il Censore.

100 Years of Love
1954
Screenplay, Theatre Play
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love st...

Mid-Century Loves
1954
Screenplay
Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight ...

Cavalcade of Song
1953
Writer

Voice of Silence
1953
Screenplay
The film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover their inner peace during a retreat in the “House of...

Black Feathers
1952
Story, Screenplay, Director
In the last days of the world war II a young Alpine soldier trys to find his way back home after the army was disbanded. In his village the soldiers, ...

Times Gone By
1952
Screenplay
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

Wanda the Sinner
1952
Screenplay
Wrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart.

Half a Century of Song
1952
Writer
Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled.

Il caimano del Piave
1951
Writer
It is 1917, the period of the First World War when Italy is fighting Austria-Hungary. Lucilla di Torrebruna leaves high school and returns to her fath...

Domani è un altro giorno
1951
Co-Writer
A doctor rescues a young woman who is about to throw herself into the river and takes her to the hospital. The woman learns of three very sad stories ...

Cuori sul mare
1950
Writer
Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress.

Tomorrow Is Too Late
1950
Screenplay
Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with...

Yvonne of the Night
1949
Screenplay
Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is ...

Sicilian Uprising
1949
Writer
Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and...

The Flame that Never Dies
1949
Screenplay, Script
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 hi...

Bicycle Thieves
1948
Screenplay
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his w...

Heart
1948
Adaptation, Screenplay
A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by E...

Sinfonia fatale
1947
Story
An American composer moves to Italy and falls for a local country girl right before the start of World War II.

The Great Dawn
1947
Writer

The Bandit
1946
Screenplay
Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest li...

Sant'Elena, piccola isola
1943
Screenplay
The last days of Napoleon on the island of Saint Helena.

Il vagabondo
1941
Screenplay

Il chiromante
1941
Director, Screenplay

The King's Jester
1941
as Courtier
Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful da...

Piccolo alpino
1940
Director

La gerla di papà Martin
1940
Screenplay

Ballo al castello
1939
Writer

L'eredità in corsa
1939
Screenplay, Director

Frenesia
1939
Screenplay

Ai vostri ordini, signora...
1939
Screenplay
The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors,...

Mille lire al mese
1939
Story

Amicizia
1938
Director
After falling in love with his friend's wife, a young man prefers to move to another place on a long trip. After several years he returns and reunites...

La mazurka di papà
1938
Theatre Play, Director

Nina, non far la stupida
1938
Screenplay

Tonight at Eleven
1937
Director, Writer
A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically wit...

Cavalleria
1936
Screenplay, Story
Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umber...

Nozze vagabonde
1936
Writer

Oggi sposi
1934
Writer

Paprika
1933
Writer

The Last Adventure
1932
Story
A youth and an elderly libertine aristocrat vie for the favors of a beautiful woman, amid the setting of Rapallo.

The Secretary for Everyone
1932
Writer

The Private Secretary
1931
Writer
During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her wh...