House of Ricordi
1954The 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 historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
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Roland Alexandre
as Gioacchino Rossini
Elisa Cegani
as Giuseppina Strepponi
Danièle Delorme
as Maria
Gabriele Ferzetti
as Giacomo Puccini
Renzo Giovampietro
as Tito Ricordi
Fosco Giachetti
as Giuseppe Verdi
Nadia Gray
as Giulia Grisi
Roldano Lupi
as Domenico Barbaja
Paolo Stoppa
as Giovanni Ricordi
Vira Silenti
as Marietta Ricordi
Myriam Bru
as Luisa Lewis
Marcello Mastroianni
as Gaetano Donizetti
Fausto Tozzi
as Arrigo Boito
Micheline Presle
as Virginia Marchi
Maria Pia Di Meo
as (Voice dubbing for Vira Silenti)
Olinto Cristina
as (Voice dubbing for Giuseppe Vami)
Rosetta Calavetta
as (Voice dubbing for Micheline Presle)
Lydia Simoneschi
as (Voice dubbing for Nadia Gray)
Enrico Maria Salerno
as (Voice dubbing for Roland Alexandre)
Giuseppe Rinaldi
as (Voice dubbing for Maurice Ronet)
Cesare Polacco
as (Voide dubbing for Memmo Carotenuto)
Andreina Pagnani
as (Voice dubbing for Märta Torén & Myriam Bru)
Rina Morelli
as (Voice dubbing for Danièle Delorme)
Pino Locchi
as (Voice dubbing for Fausto Tozzi)
Lauro Gazzolo
as (Voice dubbing for Julien Carette)
Gustavo Serena
as Il direttore di scena
Andrea Mongelli
as Cantante
Aldo Ferracuti
as Cantante
Rosetta Calavetta
as Virginia Marchi
Juanita Satiman
as Cantante
Ken Neale
as Cantante
Fernando Lidonni
as Cantante
Arturo La Porta
as Cantante
Enrico Formichi
as Cantante
Nelly Corradi
as Cantante
Italo Tajo
as Cantante
Renata Tebaldi
as Cantante
Giulietta Simionato
as Cantante
Gianni Poggi
as Cantante
Giulio Neri
as Cantante
Marineri Meli
as Cantante
Gino Mattera
as Cantante
Tito Gobbi
as Cantante
Giuseppe Varni
as Monti
Mario Del Monaco
as Cantante
Sergio Tofano
as Cesarini Sforza
Aldo Silvani
as Il dottore di Bellini
Lauro Gazzolo
as Carlotti
Memmo Carotenuto
as Stuccatore
Julien Carette
as Felix - l'oste
Manlio Busoni
as Il sovrintendente
Georges Bréhat
as Il brigadiere
Märta Torén
as Isabella Colbran
Maurice Ronet
as Vincenzo Bellini
Renato Malavasi
as Ambrogi
Paola Rolando
as (uncredited)
Giuseppe Porelli
as Carlotti (uncredited)
Danik Patisson
as (uncredited)
Claudio Ermelli
as (uncredited)
Giovanni Checchi
as (uncredited)
Mimo Billi
as (uncredited)
Antoine Balpêtré
as Dottor Fleury (uncredited)