
Acting
Alessandro Fersen
Born 1911-12-05 · Łódź, Poland
Acting credits
6.5A retelling of Homer's The Odyssey, focusing on Ulysses's ten-year journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, where he faces various mythical challenges while his wife Penelope fends off suitors.
Ulysses
1954
6.3Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict erupt in both Byzantium and Rome.
Theodora, Slave Empress
1954
6.4A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married flies off his handle and commits a murder of which an innocent man is accused. He is however tormented by his conscience.
Jealousy
1953
7.0The troublesome daughter of an American millionaire accompanies him aboard his yacht on a deep sea diving expedition in the Red Sea and falls in love with the captain.
Africa Under The Sea
1953
6.7Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.
Le Amiche
1955
9.0A young poacher is wrongly accused of killing the father of the woman he loves.
The Hunt
1953
7.5A new adventure for the Dumas musketeers who this time must save the Infanta of Spain from the intrigues of the Prince of Condé who wants to take the throne at any cost. (This film is a compendium edit made from episodes of the television series "I tre moschettieri")
Knights of the Queen
1954
6.5After murdering his mistress and being hunted by the authorities in France, Pierre stows away aboard a ship bound for Genoa. Though he's immediately robbed after arriving, things look up for Pierre when he meets kindhearted Cecchina, who introduces him to her mother, Marta. Pierre and Marta fall in love, but police are closing in and the new couple may not have much time left.
The Walls of Malapaga
1949
6.1Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited.
Condemned to Hang
1953
6.7The biographical story of Puccini spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including an attractive, beautiful singer whom he drops for a small town girl, and a servant girl who commits suicide over him.
Puccini
1953
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Disperato addio
1955
5.6Two Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following World War II.
The Earth Cries Out
1949
5.5The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother.
Perdonami!
1953
A love story along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, set in Calabria: two young lovers belong to two families who have always been enemies of each other.
Il sentiero dell'odio
1950
8.0No synopsis available yet.
The Two Orphans
1954
7.5In this entertaining drama, "Carefree Giovanni" (Sergio Castellitto) is the beleaguered last heir to a dukedom closely associated with the great artist Leonardo da Vinci. As the curtain opens, one of Giovanni's ancestors drops dead when he hears that Leonardo has died. Cut to the present, and the last duke in this line, Giovanni, is miserable in a home shared by two older women who browbeat and badger him without mercy. Giovanni's one solace is to go up on the rooftop and gaze out at the world around him as he daydreams. He has a special passion for the lovely Claire (Eleonora Girogi) who lives next door. To show his sincerity, he zooms off paper airplanes in her direction. However, these missiles are made from actual letters written by the great Leonardo himself. Could this man be last link in the lineage that started 400 years earlier?
Carefree Giovanni
1986
7.0A private detective and a girl obsessed with thriller novels investigate the murder of a rich entrepreneur.
Fermi tutti... arrivo io!
1953
5.8Rafa, a Communist Republican exiled after the Spanish Civil War, returns to his hometown to carry out an attack against the imposed tyrannical regime, but the mission fails and, in his attempt to escape, he kidnaps a lady of high society.
La ciudad perdida
1955