Nunzio Malasomma

Directing

Nunzio Malasomma

Born — Died

1894-02-04 — 1974-01-12

Place of birth

Caserta, Campania, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Nunzio Malasomma (4 February 1894 – 12 January 1974) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 41 films between 1923 and 1968.

Known for

The Fight for the Matterhorn poster
NR

Sounded version of the 1928 film 'Der Kampf ums Matterhorn'. The added sound track included music composed by Schmidt-Boelckeb and dubbed dialogs by different actors. This version is slightly shorter than the silent film due to the disappearance of the movie titles. The story, based on the novel by Carl Haensel recreates the struggle between Edward Whymper and Jean-Antoine Carrel for the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. In 1938 two new versions of the movie were filmed under the direction of Luis Trenker, who acted again in the role of Carrel. One version was shot in German (Der Berg ruft) and the other in English (The Challenge).

The Fight for the Matterhorn

1934

Adorable and Lying poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adorable and Lying

1958

Mister Radio poster
7.1

Among the vertical rockfaces of Saxony athletic Gaston saves the lives of four climbers. Both rescued ladies fall in love with him, one helps finance Gaston's futuristic invention, but the financier is darkly connected with Gaston's fate.

Mister Radio

1924

Steuerlos poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Steuerlos

1924

The Revolt of the Slaves poster
5.8

A rich man's daughter (Rhonda Fleming) sides with a Christian rebel during the fall of the Roman Empire.

The Revolt of the Slaves

1960

No artwork available
NR

On a tropical island, doctors are trying to eradicate malaria, a disease that is causing numerous deaths. Two of them are in love with the same woman, Virginia, a doctor. One of them, Pietro Fischer, had previously been engaged to her, but was implicated in a murder, though innocent. Having fled to avoid prison, he is tried and convicted in absentia. Years later, he returns under the alias of Dos Passos, gaining a reputation as a talented scientist.

Giungla

1942

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Fight for the Matterhorn poster
NR

Sounded version of the 1928 film 'Der Kampf ums Matterhorn'. The added sound track included music composed by Schmidt-Boelckeb and dubbed dialogs by different actors. This version is slightly shorter than the silent film due to the disappearance of the movie titles. The story, based on the novel by Carl Haensel recreates the struggle between Edward Whymper and Jean-Antoine Carrel for the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. In 1938 two new versions of the movie were filmed under the direction of Luis Trenker, who acted again in the role of Carrel. One version was shot in German (Der Berg ruft) and the other in English (The Challenge).

The Fight for the Matterhorn

1934

Adorable and Lying poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adorable and Lying

1958

Adorable and Lying poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adorable and Lying

1958

Mister Radio poster
7.1

Among the vertical rockfaces of Saxony athletic Gaston saves the lives of four climbers. Both rescued ladies fall in love with him, one helps finance Gaston's futuristic invention, but the financier is darkly connected with Gaston's fate.

Mister Radio

1924

Mister Radio poster
7.1

Among the vertical rockfaces of Saxony athletic Gaston saves the lives of four climbers. Both rescued ladies fall in love with him, one helps finance Gaston's futuristic invention, but the financier is darkly connected with Gaston's fate.

Mister Radio

1924

Steuerlos poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Steuerlos

1924

The Revolt of the Slaves poster
5.8

A rich man's daughter (Rhonda Fleming) sides with a Christian rebel during the fall of the Roman Empire.

The Revolt of the Slaves

1960

No artwork available
NR

On a tropical island, doctors are trying to eradicate malaria, a disease that is causing numerous deaths. Two of them are in love with the same woman, Virginia, a doctor. One of them, Pietro Fischer, had previously been engaged to her, but was implicated in a murder, though innocent. Having fled to avoid prison, he is tried and convicted in absentia. Years later, he returns under the alias of Dos Passos, gaining a reputation as a talented scientist.

Giungla

1942

No artwork available
NR

On a tropical island, doctors are trying to eradicate malaria, a disease that is causing numerous deaths. Two of them are in love with the same woman, Virginia, a doctor. One of them, Pietro Fischer, had previously been engaged to her, but was implicated in a murder, though innocent. Having fled to avoid prison, he is tried and convicted in absentia. Years later, he returns under the alias of Dos Passos, gaining a reputation as a talented scientist.

Giungla

1942

The Fight for the Matterhorn poster
8.2

Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.

The Fight for the Matterhorn

1928

The Fight for the Matterhorn poster
8.2

Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.

The Fight for the Matterhorn

1928

Fra Diavolo poster
10.0

A sympathetic bandit chief supports the cause of freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King Ferdinand.

Fra Diavolo

1931

No artwork available
5.8

Peter Helling, the only survivor of a polar expedition, returns once more to the eternal ice. Why he calls his fate out again, what has happened? At that time he had set out with his best friend Svensson, to search for the missing friend of the woman they both love and for which they fought. In desperation, the men drag through the deep snow and the icy Arctic storms.

The Call of the North

1929

No artwork available
5.8

Peter Helling, the only survivor of a polar expedition, returns once more to the eternal ice. Why he calls his fate out again, what has happened? At that time he had set out with his best friend Svensson, to search for the missing friend of the woman they both love and for which they fought. In desperation, the men drag through the deep snow and the icy Arctic storms.

The Call of the North

1929

Fifteen Scaffolds for a Murderer poster
6.2

Unjustly accused of the murder of three women, the members of two rival gangs are joined to survive to the hunting that the whole town is making. Running away, they reach an abandoned fort in which the attempt to fend off attacks from the group that pursues them.

Fifteen Scaffolds for a Murderer

1967

The Man with the Claw poster
7.0

A killer is on the loose, murdering people with an iron claw.

The Man with the Claw

1931

No artwork available
10.0

Italian-language version of the Germany-made DER TEUFELSBRUDER (FRA DIAVOLO), with different supporting cast and some scenes. Based on the Auber opera, but with generally original music by Dr. Giuseppe Becce.

Fra Diavolo

1931

In due si soffre meglio poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

In due si soffre meglio

1943

In due si soffre meglio poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

In due si soffre meglio

1943

Quattro rose rosse poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Quattro rose rosse

1952

Quattro rose rosse poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Quattro rose rosse

1952

Il diavolo in convento poster
8.0

March 1945: an air raid destroys a fishing village. The homeless are hosted by Brother Angelo in the convent of San Fruttuoso in Camogli: years pass but the houses are not rebuilt and when the prior dies, the convent is sold to the rich engineer Milone, determined to transform it into a holiday complex. To prevent the homeless from ending up on the streets, Brother Angelo devises every possible expedient, even a fake miracle while waiting for San Fruttuoso to perform a real one.

Il diavolo in convento

1950

Il diavolo in convento poster
8.0

March 1945: an air raid destroys a fishing village. The homeless are hosted by Brother Angelo in the convent of San Fruttuoso in Camogli: years pass but the houses are not rebuilt and when the prior dies, the convent is sold to the rich engineer Milone, determined to transform it into a holiday complex. To prevent the homeless from ending up on the streets, Brother Angelo devises every possible expedient, even a fake miracle while waiting for San Fruttuoso to perform a real one.

Il diavolo in convento

1950

I Don't Know You Anymore poster
6.7

After an argument with her husband, an unsatisfied wife suffers from selective amnesia. She doesn't recognize the man she married and calls her doctor husband instead.

I Don't Know You Anymore

1936

The Blind Woman of Sorrento poster
6.7

Drama set in the nineteenth century in Sorrento in southern Italy. It is an adaptation of the 1852 novel of the same title by Francesco Mastriani. A young woman named Beatrice loses her sight after witnessing the death of her mother. Unable to see Beatrice is unable to identify her mothers’ killer. The police arrest a man who they believe is the murderer. Did they get the right man or is the killer still lurking in the shadows? Years later a family friend introduces Beatrice to a renowned Doctor who specializes in restoring sight. Will Beatrice regain her sight and identify her mothers’ killer or will someone make sure that she never sees again?

The Blind Woman of Sorrento

1934

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Mann ohne Kopf

1927

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cose dell'altro mondo

1939

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cose dell'altro mondo

1939

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cose dell'altro mondo

1939

La signorina dell'autobus poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La signorina dell'autobus

1933

La signorina dell'autobus poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La signorina dell'autobus

1933

La signora in nero poster
7.0

A mysterious woman dressed in black slaps a man who is about to get married.

La signora in nero

1943

La signora in nero poster
7.0

A mysterious woman dressed in black slaps a man who is about to get married.

La signora in nero

1943

No artwork available
6.0

The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy day at the racetrack and that her career is thus at an end. Meanwhile, Cecil has fallen in love with the pretty Colette … without suspecting that her father, the wealthy Bartell, was a former lover of his mother and that he’s Cecil’s daddy. Thus, both Carmen and Bartell try to prevent the unfolding love-relationship between brother and sister, because this ain’t the Ozarks, you know! Only after the unhappy Cecil tries to commit suicide after an argument with his mother do Carmen and Bartell realize they still love one another. Suicide attempt be damned; let’s go out on a date! A movie that screams “Fun for the whole family.”

The Secret Lie

1938

Milizia territoriale poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Milizia territoriale

1936

Incontri di notte poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Incontri di notte

1943

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amore rosso

1921

The Knights of the Mountain poster
9.0

The mountain guide and ski instructor Hans Turri has been hired by the tourist Gregory Milacz to make a route in the mountains. Both are caught by a storm, so while Milacz is waiting at the Concordia Hut, Turri returns to the valley again. On the way back, Milacz has disappeared. Suspicions turn against Turri as a murder suspect for the jealousy he might have for the beautiful Mary Dulac. To get rid of the accusation of murder, Turri sets out to find Milacs. French version of the film ‘Der sohn der weissen berge’, shot the same year by the same team but with different actors.

The Knights of the Mountain

1930

Nina, non far la stupida poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nina, non far la stupida

1938

Nina, non far la stupida poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nina, non far la stupida

1938