Acting
Giuseppe Varni
Born 1902-03-20 · Warsaw, Russian Empire [now Poland]
Giuseppe Varni (born Józef Bruno Winawer) (1902-1965) was a Polish-born Italian stage and film actor.
Acting credits
7.1After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Quo Vadis
1951
No synopsis available yet.
Finalmente sì
1944
6.4A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Black Magic
1949
9.0Birdaghin is a dancer at La Scala in Milan whose rapid success also quickly goes to her head. Fortunately, everything will be fine.
Biraghin
1946
6.0This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.
Rigoletto
1946
7.0A pair of Poles deported to Siberia are taken to the army formed by General Anders and along the battle trail.
The Great Way
1947
4.1A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
The Affairs of Messalina
1951
7.0A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.
Taxi di notte
1950
6.8An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Before Him All Rome Trembled
1946
7.5The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eternal Melody
1940
6.3The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
House of Ricordi
1954
6.8The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian troops enter Odessa.
Odessa in Flames
1942
6.3A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day, the love letter the woman writes to this non-existent man is accidentally sent by one of her students –and falls into the hands of a real person.
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
1940
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Le due orfanelle
1942
7.0As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
Casta diva
1954
8.0Set in the Papal States in the first half of the 19th century, it tells the story of the Roman noblewoman Vanina Vanini and her secret love for the Carbonaro Pietro Mirilli. The latter, given his commitments in the underground struggle, decides to abandon his young lover, who is nevertheless willing to marry him. Left alone, Vanina is unable to escape her despair and tries in every way to reunite with her companion, even going so far as to denounce the Carbonari to the Cardinal of Romagna, naming them all except Pietro and revealing the hiding place where they meet. Pietro, learning of Vanina's betrayal, casts her out. Only then does Vanina realize the gravity of her actions and decides to join the Carbonari, even participating in combat operations, during one of which she is wounded. This brings the two young people closer together forever.
Beyond Love
1940
9.0An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Primo amore
1941
7.5Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.
Eugenia Grandet
1946
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La grande rinuncia
1951
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La donna del peccato
1942
8.0France, 1860. A young widow is wrongly accused of murder and, after serving many years in prison, she escapes to find the real culprit.
La portatrice di pane
1950
6.0Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
La forza del destino
1950
No synopsis available yet.
Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen
1952
9.0Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.
Tristi amori
1943