Cavalcade of Heroes
1950 film
- Anton Giulio Majano
- Fulvio Palmieri
- Piero Ghione
- Lamberto Giovagnoli
- Mario Costa
- Cesare Danova
- Carla Del Poggio
- Vittorio Sanipoli
- Camillo Pilotto
Production
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Vulcania Film
Release date
- 21 April 1950 (1950-04-21)
Running time
Cavalcade of Heroes (Italian: Cavalcata d'eroi) is a 1950 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Mario Costa and starring Cesare Danova, Carla Del Poggio and Vittorio Sanipoli. It depicts the events around the founding of the short-lived Roman Republic of 1849.[1]
Plot
Love story of a patriot and a girl with a noble lineage, already linked to a Frenchman, against the backdrop of the second assault of the French troops in Rome which took place between June 3 and July 2, 1849. With the French entry and victory, who install a provisional government, the two lovers will decide, once the differences of a social nature have been overcome, to follow Garibaldi's troops in Northern Italy.[2]
Partial cast
- Cesare Danova as Massimo Ruffo
- Carla Del Poggio as Giulia Fabbri
- Vittorio Sanipoli as Ottavio Monis
- Otello Toso as Angelo Masina
- Camillo Pilotto as Alessandro Fabbri
- Paola Borboni as La marchesa Ferrari
- Alfredo Varelli as Luciano Manara
- Carlo Tamberlani as Pisacane
- Ugo Sasso as Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Germana Paolieri as La duchessa
- Carlo Romano as Paolo Tassoni
- Marco Vicario as Mario
- Ave Ninchi as Aurelia
- Attilio Dottesio as Mazzini
- Mario Ferrari as Generale Odivot
- Dante Maggio as Ciccillo
- Arturo Dominici as Generale Gilletti
- Peppino Spadaro as Capitan Turi
- Achille Majeroni as Il vescovo
References
Bibliography
- Moliterno, Gino. Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
External links
- Cavalcade of Heroes at IMDb
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