Enrico Gras

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

Behind the camera

Soledad poster
5.8

Soledad 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

Soledad poster
5.8

Soledad 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

Empire in the Sun poster
5.8

Colorful widescreen travelogue along the Amazon River jungle of Peru, featuring an indigenous village carnival and a snake dance.

Empire in the Sun

1956

Empire in the Sun poster
5.8

Colorful widescreen travelogue along the Amazon River jungle of Peru, featuring an indigenous village carnival and a snake dance.

Empire in the Sun

1956

Pictura poster
10.0

A 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

Racconto da un affresco poster
7.5

The 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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Biblioteca Nacional

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Artigas, Protector of the Free Peoples poster
NR

Tells 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

Artigas, Protector of the Free Peoples poster
NR

Tells 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

The Invention of the Cross poster
9.0

A 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

Dreams Die at Dawn poster
10.0

Five Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

Dreams Die at Dawn

1961

Guerrieri poster
7.0

A short Italian film from Luciano Emmer & Enrico Gras using paintings to tell a story of warriors.

Guerrieri

1942

The Legend of Saint Ursula poster
8.0

A 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

No artwork available
8.0

Retracing the path taken by the Allied armies in Italy, you pass through landscapes dotted with crosses, where fallen soldiers lie.

Bianchi pascoli

1947

Il miracolo di San Gennaro poster
4.0

The cult of the patron saint of Naples is characterized by forms of tribal and popular religiosity.

Il miracolo di San Gennaro

1948

Il dramma di Cristo poster
10.0

The documentary focuses on Giotto's frescoes in Padua.

Il dramma di Cristo

1948

Lost Continent poster
9.0

Three 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

Lost Continent poster
9.0

Three 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

Il paradiso terrestre poster
7.5

A documentary on the paintings of Gerolamo Bosch.

Il paradiso terrestre

1942

Il paradiso terrestre poster
7.5

A documentary on the paintings of Gerolamo Bosch.

Il paradiso terrestre

1942

Romantici a Venezia poster
7.3

This 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

No artwork available
7.0

A journey through the garden of earthly delights.

Il paradiso perduto

1949

No artwork available
7.5

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

No artwork available
NR

It tells the history of civilization through the objects of the Museo de La Plata.

Adventure of the Centuries

1950

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

A vision of the chaotic Buenos Aires of the mid-20th century and an urban solution

La ciudad frente al río

1948

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rogelio Yrurtia

1953

Islands in the Lagoon poster
6.2

A 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

Don Segundo Sombra poster
NR

Tribute to Ricardo Guiraldes, the writer who knew how to find the best human excellences in a man of the people.

Don Segundo Sombra

1954

Pupila al viento poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pupila al viento

1949

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il covo

1941