La voce senza volto
1939 film
- Corrado D'Errico
- Aldo De Benedetti
- Riccardo Freda
- Ivo Perilli[1]
- Giovanni Manurita
- Vanna Vanni
- Elsa De Giorgi
- Carlo Romano
Production
company
company
Juventus Film[1]
Release date
- 5 January 1939 (1939-01-05) (Italy)
Running time
La voce senza volto (transl. The Faceless Voice) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Gennaro Righelli.[1][2] It is part of the tradition of telefoni bianchi (transl. white telephone) comedies, popular in Italy at the time.[2]
Cast
- Cast adapted from Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker.[1]
- Giovanni Manurita as Gino Malversi
- Vanna Vanni as Mirella Bonardi
- Elsa De Giorgi as an actress
- Carlo Romano as Maurizio Sala, the tenore
- Romolo Costa as Riva, the film director
- Claudio Ermelli as Tabarrini
- Adele Garavaglia as Gino's mother
- Anita Farra as the Hostel owner
- Nietta Zocchi as the actress' maid
Production
La voce senza volto was shot at the Cinecittà Studios.[2] The film features Giovanni Manurita, a popular tenor who had a brief film career.[2] La voce senza volto would be his third last film.[2]
Release
La voce senza volto was distributed theatrically in Italy by Juventus Film on January 5, 1939.[1] Film historian and critic Roberto Curti noted that the current prints of the film in Italy suffer from soundtrack damage, and feature voice work that was re-dubbed onto the film with contemporary dialogue.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Curti 2017, p. 290.
- ^ a b c d e f Curti 2017, p. 22.
Bibliography
- Curti, Roberto (2017). Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476628387.
External links
- La voce senza volto at IMDb
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Films directed by Gennaro Righelli
- Red Love (1921)
- The Voyage (1921)
- Under the Snow (1922)
- La Boheme (1923)
- Orient (1924)
- Rudderless (1924)
- The Doll Queen (1925)
- The Champion of the World (1927)
- Homesick (1927)
- Svengali (1927)
- Five Anxious Days (1928)
- Orient (1928)
- The Secret Courier (1928)
- The President (1928)
- Their Son (1929)
- The Night of Terror (1929)
- The Song of Love (1930)
- The Blue Fleet (1932)
- Together in the Dark (1933)
- The Last of the Bergeracs (1934)
- Mr. Desire (1934)
- Those Two (1935)
- The Amnesiac (1936)
- White Amazons (1936)
- Lasciate ogni speranza (1937)
- They've Kidnapped a Man (1938)
- La voce senza volto (1939)
- The Boarders at Saint-Cyr (1939)
- The Knight of San Marco (1939)
- Down with Misery (1945)
- Peddlin' in Society (1946)
- The Courier of the King (1947)
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