Vittorio Cottafavi Movies

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.

3-part biopic of Dante Alighieri made for Italian public television. Mixes reenacted scenes of Dante's public life with readings of his poems,...

The trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux.

An adaptation of the Aeschylus play.

Cottafavi's adaptation of the Greek tragedy for RAI.

After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.

In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an...

An Italian historical melodrama

Sci-fi film made for TV by Vittorio Cottafavi.

In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small...

Evocation of a dramatic episode of the Second World War told by an old guard. Boarded as a non-commissioned officer on the battleship sailed from...

The operetta, which was introduced from the headlines and a preamble, is initiated by a particular ballet, which then gives way to the development of...

Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice...

An adaptation of Molière's play.

An adaptation of Joseph Conrad's first novel, taking us to the Malaysian mangrove forests against a backdrop of colonial decadence.

Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge is an Italian adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

A Vittorio Cottafavi minisseries about Christopher Columbus.