Before Him All Rome Trembled () is a 1946 Italian musical war melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Anna Magnani, Tito Gobbi and Hans Hinrich. Ada and Marco are a pair of opera singers, who moonlight working for the Italian resistance at the time of the German occupation of Rome during the Second World War. They are sheltering a British soldier with whom they make contact with the advancing Allied forces. Sylistically the film is a hybrid between filmed performances of opera, and a neorealistic resistance melodrama.Bayman & Rigoletto p.42
The title refers to Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, which is performed during the film.
Cast Anna Magnani as Ada Tito Gobbi as Marco Hans Hinrich as German Officer Gino Sinimberghi as Frank, the British soldier Guido Notari as Doctor Tino Scotti as Mechanic Guglielmo Sinaz as Stagehand Joop van Hulzen as Webb Giuseppe Varni as Stagehand Carlo Duse as Police Officer Edda Albertini as Lena Heinrich Bode as German Soldier Antonio Crast Giulio Neri Ave Ninchi
References
Bibliography Bayman, Louis & Rigoletto, Sergio. Popular Italian Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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