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1860 is a 1934 Italian historical film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia and Gianfranco Giachetti. The film presages Italian neorealism in that it was shot mainly on location.
1860 is a 1934 Italian historical film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia and Gianfranco Giachetti.
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Considered today the most significant Italian filmmaker to emerge during the 1930s, Alessandro Blasetti is best known for this great masterpiece. 1860 is the story of Garibaldi's invasion of Sicily told from the viewpoint of a newly married shepherd ...
Blasetti concluded 1860 with scenes in Mussolini’s Rome, which seemed to draw favourable comparisons between his Black Shirts and Garibaldi’s Red Shirts, and were cut after the Second World War. But, in the end, history has been kind to his reputation.
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land.
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- Cinès-Pittaluga, Società Italiana Cines
- Alessandro Blasetti
Screenwriter: Emilio Cecchi, Gino Mazzucchi, Alessandro Blasetti. Cinematographer: Anchise Brizzi, Giulio De Luca. Cast: Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia, Gianfranco Giachetti, Mario Ferrari. The film presages Italian neorealism in that it was shot mainly on location.
Nov 2, 2010 · Alessandro Blasetti (1900–1987), a law school graduate and failed movie extra, started out as a film critic and participant in what might be viewed as a forerunner of the French Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) of the 1950s and 1960s: the Augustus cooperative.
