
Directing
Enrico Gras
Born — Died
1919-03-07 — 1981-03-05
Place of birth
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Known for
Directing
Credits
31 titles
Enrico Gras (7 March 1919 – 5 March 1981) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 22 films between 1941 and 1961.
Known for
5.8Soledad and Miguel are two young people in a romantic relationship. Don Ramón, a wealthy stranger, arrives in their small town and marries Soledad. Miguel leaves town and wanders aimlessly throughout the region with a peddler.
Soledad
1959
5.8Colorful widescreen travelogue along the Amazon River jungle of Peru, featuring an indigenous village carnival and a snake dance.
Empire in the Sun
1956
10.0A documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the general filmgoing public a taste of art history and art appreciation.
Pictura
1951
7.5The first art film by Emmer and Gras dedicated to Giotto's frescos in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. By capturing the humanity of the figures that populate the story of the life of Jesus, the two Directors treat the series of paintings like a true canvas, isolating the single scenes from the context of the work, and then re-composing them in a new synthesis. The film was re-edited in 1946 and entitled Il dramma di Cristo.
Racconto da un affresco
1941
No synopsis available yet.
Biblioteca Nacional
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NRTells the story of the Chief of the Orientals from a few elements: paintings, monuments and proclamations, managing in many passages to create a strong sense of movement and reality.
Artigas, Protector of the Free Peoples
1951
Behind the camera
5.8Soledad and Miguel are two young people in a romantic relationship. Don Ramón, a wealthy stranger, arrives in their small town and marries Soledad. Miguel leaves town and wanders aimlessly throughout the region with a peddler.
Soledad
1959
5.8Soledad and Miguel are two young people in a romantic relationship. Don Ramón, a wealthy stranger, arrives in their small town and marries Soledad. Miguel leaves town and wanders aimlessly throughout the region with a peddler.
Soledad
1959
5.8Colorful widescreen travelogue along the Amazon River jungle of Peru, featuring an indigenous village carnival and a snake dance.
Empire in the Sun
1956
5.8Colorful widescreen travelogue along the Amazon River jungle of Peru, featuring an indigenous village carnival and a snake dance.
Empire in the Sun
1956
10.0A documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the general filmgoing public a taste of art history and art appreciation.
Pictura
1951
7.5The first art film by Emmer and Gras dedicated to Giotto's frescos in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. By capturing the humanity of the figures that populate the story of the life of Jesus, the two Directors treat the series of paintings like a true canvas, isolating the single scenes from the context of the work, and then re-composing them in a new synthesis. The film was re-edited in 1946 and entitled Il dramma di Cristo.
Racconto da un affresco
1941
No synopsis available yet.
Biblioteca Nacional
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NRTells the story of the Chief of the Orientals from a few elements: paintings, monuments and proclamations, managing in many passages to create a strong sense of movement and reality.
Artigas, Protector of the Free Peoples
1951
NRTells the story of the Chief of the Orientals from a few elements: paintings, monuments and proclamations, managing in many passages to create a strong sense of movement and reality.
Artigas, Protector of the Free Peoples
1951
9.0A text read by the narrator traces the vicissitudes of the crucifixion of Jesus, while the objective of the two directors investigates the style of Piero della Francesca by exploring his frescoes in the Arezzo church of San Francesco.
The Invention of the Cross
1949
10.0Five Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Dreams Die at Dawn
1961
7.0A short Italian film from Luciano Emmer & Enrico Gras using paintings to tell a story of warriors.
Guerrieri
1942
8.0A short documentary describing of some of the paintings of Vittore Carpaccio at a gallery in Venice depicting the life of Sant Orsola (Saint Ursula).
The Legend of Saint Ursula
1948
Retracing the path taken by the Allied armies in Italy, you pass through landscapes dotted with crosses, where fallen soldiers lie.
Bianchi pascoli
1947
4.0The cult of the patron saint of Naples is characterized by forms of tribal and popular religiosity.
Il miracolo di San Gennaro
1948
10.0The documentary focuses on Giotto's frescoes in Padua.
Il dramma di Cristo
1948
9.0Three directors collaborated on the Italian documentary Continente Perduto. The "lost continent" of the title is Asia, specifically Indonesia, here lovingly photographed in Ferraniacolor by Mario Craveri, Giannni Rafaldi and Franco Bernetti. Highlights include a Cantonese wedding aboard a floating junk, the annual wheat and rice harvest, the animal-sacrifice rites at the rim of a volcano, a ceremonial chariot race, and a bevy of Balinese dancers. Though there's no story to speak of, the film has the rhythm and pace of a "continuity" picture. Continente Perduto was the winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Lost Continent
1955
9.0Three directors collaborated on the Italian documentary Continente Perduto. The "lost continent" of the title is Asia, specifically Indonesia, here lovingly photographed in Ferraniacolor by Mario Craveri, Giannni Rafaldi and Franco Bernetti. Highlights include a Cantonese wedding aboard a floating junk, the annual wheat and rice harvest, the animal-sacrifice rites at the rim of a volcano, a ceremonial chariot race, and a bevy of Balinese dancers. Though there's no story to speak of, the film has the rhythm and pace of a "continuity" picture. Continente Perduto was the winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Lost Continent
1955
7.5A documentary on the paintings of Gerolamo Bosch.
Il paradiso terrestre
1942
7.5A documentary on the paintings of Gerolamo Bosch.
Il paradiso terrestre
1942
7.3This is a documentary film on the romantic and decadent atmosphere of Venice at the end of the 18th century. A vigorous comment by Jean Cocteau tells us of the sick souls and the sorrows of literary characters and musicians who lived the dream of this city. It is the Venice of Lord Byron, Alfred de Musset, George Sand, d'Annunzio; a Venice made of precious images, palaces reflected in the water, mysterious moonlights, little squares where unhappy lovers wander under the music of Richard Wagner.
Romantici a Venezia
1948
A journey through the garden of earthly delights.
Il paradiso perduto
1949
This documentary tells the story of the brilliant Italian polymath, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, musician, writer, philosopher, scientist, botanist, geologist, cartographer, mathematician, anatomist, paleontologist, architect, urban planner, engineer, and inventor. The legacy of the brilliant Leonardo (1452-1519) to the world came in many forms: in the breathtaking beauty of The Last Supper and The Mona Lisa; in his rich collection of engravings; and in his notes on original thoughts on astronomy, biology, and physiology.
Leonardo da Vinci
1952
It tells the history of civilization through the objects of the Museo de La Plata.
Adventure of the Centuries
1950
In collaboration with the School of Fascist Mysticism, Emmer recounts rural life in Predappio, the birthplace of Il Duce. Due to the final scenes, shot in the cemetery where the Mussolini family tomb is located, Il Duce ordered the destruction of the film.
La sua terra
1941
A vision of the chaotic Buenos Aires of the mid-20th century and an urban solution
La ciudad frente al río
1948
No synopsis available yet.
Rogelio Yrurtia
1953
6.2A documentary about the Venetian lagoon, with the words of Diego Fabbri narrating scenes of strips of land swallowed up by the sea, of small boats sailing on the water, of men and women concentrating on their work in a world which is "a false sea and a false land."
Islands in the Lagoon
1948
NRTribute to Ricardo Guiraldes, the writer who knew how to find the best human excellences in a man of the people.
Don Segundo Sombra
1954
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Pupila al viento
1949
No synopsis available yet.
Il covo
1941
