Casta diva

Casta diva (1935)


  • Genre: Drama, Music
  • Release Date: 1935-06-13
  • User Rating: 5.8/10 from 4 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 27min
  • Language: Italiano
  • Production Company: Produzioni Atlas Consorziate
  • Production Country: Italy
  • Director: Carmine Gallone
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Summary

Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here played by American actor Phillips Holmes. Paying but scant attention the facts, the film concentrates on Bellini's colorful love life. Evidently the film went through several rewriting processes, as witness the curious performances of Donald Calthrop and Arthur Margetson, whose characters do complete about-faces halfway through the story. Amidst so many British accents, Martha Eggerth's Polish intonations seem out of place, but she photographs beautifully and sings quite well. Casta Diva was attractively filmed on location in Naples. Not to be confused with the 1954 remake (by Gallone himself) or to the English language version "The Divine Spark" (also directed by Gallone and starred by Eggerth).

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  • Mártha Eggerth

    as Maddelena Fumarol
  • Sandro Palmieri

    as Vincenzo Bellini
  • Gualtiero Tumiati

    as Niccolò Paganini
  • Lamberto Picasso

    as Fumaroli
  • Achille Majeroni

    as Gioacchino Rossini
  • Lina Marengo

    as a guest
  • Giulio Donadio

    as Felice Romani
  • Ennio Cerlesi

    as Ernesto Toti
Directing Carmine Gallone Director
Production William Szekeley Producer
Production Giuseppe Amato Producer
Editing Fernando Tropea Editor
Writing Walter Reisch Writer
Camera Franz Planer Director of Photography
Camera Massimo Terzano Director of Photography

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