Don Cesare di Bazan

1942 film

Sergio Amidei
Vitaliano Brancati
Riccardo Freda
Cesare Zavatini
Giacomo Debenedetti^[1]

Based on

Don César de Bazan
by

Adolphe d'Ennery
Philippe Dumanoir

^[1]Produced byRiccardo Freda^[1]Starring

Gino Cervi
Anneliese Uhlig
Paolo Stoppa
Enrico Glori

CinematographyMario Craveri^[1]Edited byRolando Benedetti^[1]Music byFranco D'Achiardi^[1]

Production
company

Elica Artisti Associati^[1]

Distributed byArtisti Associati

Release date

4 October 1942 (1942-10-04) (Italy)

Running time

77 minutes^[1]CountryItaly^[1]

Don Cesare di Bazan is a 1942 Italian historical adventure film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Gino Cervi, Anneliese Uhlig and Paolo Stoppa.^[2] The film is set during the Catalan Revolt of the Seventeenth century. It is based on a play by Philippe Dumanoir and Adolphe d'Ennery. It marked the directoral debut of Freda who went on to be a leading commercial Italian filmmaker.^[3]

Cast

Gino Cervi as Don Cesare di Bazan
Anneliese Uhlig as Renée Dumas
Paolo Stoppa as Sancho
Enrico Glori as Il visconte di Beaumont
Enzo Biliotti as Filippo IV
Giovanni Grasso as Don José di Nogueira
Carlo Duse as Il "Corvo", il messagero del visconte
Antonio Marietti as Il giovane conte, il finto attore
Alfredo Robert as Pasquale Cornalis, il capocomico
Sandrino Moreno as Il bambino
Anna Maria Dionisi as La cameriera di Renée
Ermanno Donati as Velasquez
Antonio Acqua as Il capitano Ribera
Armando Francioli as Un nobile cavaliere
Alfredo Martinelli as Un nobile cospiratore
Angelo Dessy as Il cospiratore che provoca il duello
Pietro Tordi as Uno dei finti attori
Cellio Bucchi as Il duca di Orovesa
Umberto Sclanizza as Il taverniere
Evaristo Signorini as Un altro nobile cospiratore

Release

DonCesare di Bazan was released in Italy on 4 October 1942 where it was distributed by Artisti Associati.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Curti 2017, p. 302.
^ Testa p.7
^ Moliterno p.136

Bibliography

Curti, Roberto (2017). Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476628387.
Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
Testa, Carlo. Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures, 1945-2000. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002.