The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
1938The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
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Fosco Giachetti
as Giuseppe Verdi
Gaby Morlay
as Giuseppina Strepponi
Germana Paolieri
as Margherita Barezzi
Camillo Pilotto
as Antonio Barezzi
Cesco Baseggio
as Papà Verdi
Maria Jacobini
as Luigia Uttini, madre di Verdi
Maria Cebotari
as Teresina Stolz
Febo Mari
as Marelli, il direttore della Scala di Milano
Carlo Duse
as Temistocle Solera
Eugenio Duse
as L'impressario Massini
Enrico Glori
as Il maestro Mariani
Clara Padoa
as La contessa Maffei
Achille Majeroni
as Il maestro Basili
Carlo Tamberlani
as Demalde
Augusto Di Giovanni
as Antonio Ghislanzoni
Gustavo Serena
as Salvatore Cammarano
Guido Celano
as Francesco Maria Piave
Lamberto Picasso
as Gaetano Donizzetti
Pierre Brasseur
as Alexandre Dumas figlio
Gabriel Gabrio
as Honoré De Balzac
Beniamino Gigli
as Il tenore Mirate
Henri Rollan
as Victor Hugo