From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mario Soldati (17 November 1906 – 19 June 1999) was an Italian writer and film director. In 1954 he won the Strega Prize for Lettere da Capri. He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Italian actresses, such as Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida.
A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker
Release Date1950-09-21
Charactersd Il ragioner Spasiani
Vote Count39
A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
Release Date1942-12-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count16
Release Date1968-01-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd se stesso
Episode Count6
Release Date1957-12-03
DepartmentCrew
JobPresenter
Charactersd Conduttore
Episode Count12
A former Fascist takes his son and escapes across the border into France, where he tries to avoid being recognized and having to pay for his wartime crimes.
Release Date1948-08-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Charactersd Stiffi (uncredited)
Vote Count8
Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.
Release Date1989-05-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self (segment "Torino")
Vote Count7
Mario Soldati accompanies us in search of genuine food, this time to discover the culinary traditions of Christmas lunch, with Father Mariano, Cesare Zavattini, the shoemaker Angelo Gatto, the baroness Aurelia Michetti and the General Lorenzo De Grandi.
Release Date1958-12-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd Himself
Release Date1960-01-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Sé stesso
Episode Count8
Release Date1958-08-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd
Vote Count1
Mario Soldati accompanies us once again, after the journey in the Po valley, in search of genuine foods, this time to discover the culinary traditions of Christmas lunch. Cesare Zavattini tells about the typical Christmas dishes of his region. The broadcast aired on December 17, 1958.
Release Date1958-12-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
The artistic evolution of the great composer, whose work left an indelible mark in the history of Italian cinema. In this documentary Nino Rota's extraordinary musical production relives in the words of his friends and colleagues. His collaboration with Visconti and Fellini are truly memorable. His movie score and sequences of his performances in theaters all over the world hand us down a full and evocative outline of this outstanding artist.
Release Date1994-06-28
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
Vote Count1
The Peace Newsreel is the prototype of those independent and collective film initiatives on topics of social and political interest that Cesare Zavattini later promoted further through the “Free Newsreels.” Here, the general theme is peace, and it is introduced by Mario Soldati.
Release Date1963-02-01
Charactersd Self
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Release Date1956-08-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count256
The film follows the struggles of an idealistic Catholic politician.
Release Date1947-05-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.
Release Date1946-09-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
Release Date1966-09-28
DepartmentCrew
JobAdditional Writing
Vote Count272
In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina. Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The other workers think Mario is responsible for the death of his friend. Mario, who is innocent, is forced to quit, but his love for Gina and his dedication to his job help him out of his crisis.
Release Date1933-03-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count6
Released from jail, Nanni punches prison guard Stefano who has denounced him. In order to take revenge, Stefano suggests the suspicion that, during his absence, his wife has had business with the Count Paolo. A few days later, at night, a deadly ambush will be prepared. Based on the novel The Trap (1928) by Toscan Delfino Cinelli.
Release Date1942-03-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
A young man falls in love with a girl from whom he hides the fact that he is already engaged to a mature upper-class lady. To win her over, he hires two actors to portray his parents.
Release Date1945-03-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
A young husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted.But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover who is stalking her on the premises.
Release Date1954-11-12
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
The castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count and sends his three sons in the Antilles. The ship is attacked by pirates and the three brothers are liberated. They decide to join the pirates to have revenge on Van Gould, who has also moved to the Antilles on the command of the viceroy.
Release Date1952-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1957-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.
Release Date1951-11-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
A woman becomes convinced that her husband is an infamous wife-killer intent on adding her to his list of victims.
Release Date1934-01-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will.
Release Date1941-04-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count20
A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.
Release Date1938-03-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two men get stolen by Cleo, a charming thief. Once in Rome, the painter finds himself penniless and the dresser without the gown...
Release Date1950-02-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Release Date1954-02-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count24
When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns her that Gino has escaped from prison and is seeking revenge. She rejects his offer to protect her. Gino finds Nives, mourning the drowning death of their son. He surrenders himself to the police and then walks at Nives' side in the funeral procession.
Release Date1954-12-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .
Release Date1959-03-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
Release Date1950-05-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count5
Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major Court (Trevor Howard), whom he hasn't seen in three years. Roger lives with his Aunt Rose since his mother abandoned him.
Release Date1954-01-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Gemma, caught between her desires and reality, struggles to navigate her marriage and personal ambitions.
Release Date1953-02-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count17
Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer’s car to took her on a trip to the lakes, but things don’t work as planned and to conquer Mariuccia’s hearth won’t be so easy…
Release Date1932-10-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count29
Release Date1953-11-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The rich banker Rosen of Livorno fear that the Bonapartist will take all his gold, so he is hiding it inside a cuckoo clock.
Release Date1938-09-19
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count4
Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.
Release Date1950-11-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1960-02-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Collected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among them, together with the man who accompanied her.
Release Date1953-02-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
Release Date1956-12-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
An adventuress serves as bait for a swindler, who robs the naive people she brings to him with poker. A childhood friend helps him.
Release Date1938-07-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.
Release Date1952-03-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
Release Date1962-12-24
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count8
A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail.
Release Date1935-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.
Release Date1936-04-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count4
Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with.
Release Date1937-11-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count21
Rogelia, the orphan of an Asturian miner who died in a work-related accident, marries Máximo, a man as robust as jealous, drunk and violent. But when her husband is jailed, the woman will take advantage to escape with the doctor of the village so as to see the world and perhaps to form a family.
Release Date1939-05-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
A bankrupt aristocrat tries to keep up appearances while his situation worsens. To top it off the life savings given to him by a beggar to invest has been mistakenly claimed by the aristocrat's altruist society for their annual Feast of the Poor.
Release Date1932-01-02
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.
Release Date1951-09-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.
Release Date1945-12-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Mandrin, the French army deserter, becomes the leader of a gang of smugglers in Piedmont. He is loved by the beautiful innkeeper Rosetta but draws attention to the Marquise de Montbricourt, favorite of the king, who comes from Versailles just to see him. She will saved his life and allow him to marry Rosetta.
Release Date1952-03-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.
Release Date1936-01-02
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Release Date1940-04-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
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 with a gangster.
Release Date1937-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A humble girl looks so much alike a capricious movies star that she gets to replace her both on the set and in her private life. A remake of a French comedy from 5 years before.
Release Date1939-12-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire...
Release Date1942-08-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
Bebe, a handsome and rich young man, is getting engaged with Letizia, a young heir to a noble family.
Release Date1937-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Short film made for the catholic church.
Release Date1948-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
At the end of the 19th century, a middle-class woman explains why she cannot get along with her husband, a good man but a little rough around the edges: she cannot forget that during the Risorgimento she fell in love with a noble conspirator. Now, however, she realizes that her true love is her husband.
Release Date1940-09-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count7
An Italian industrialist who has made a fortune in America returns to Italy planning to make a film about a beautiful woman who smiled at him before he left his home country years before.
Release Date1939-08-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A journey through valleys, living rocks and the culture of the Valtellina hillsides.
Release Date2009-10-18
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.
Release Date1946-12-09
Vote Count6
