
Writing
Gherardo Gherardi
Born — Died
1891-07-02 — 1949-03-10
Place of birth
Granaglione, Italy
Known for
Writing
Credits
34 titles
Known for
8.2Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
Bicycle Thieves
1948
7.6In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
The Children Are Watching Us
1943
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Felicità perduta
1946
NRNo synopsis available yet.
L'invasore
1949
No synopsis available yet.
Il sogno di tutti
1940
10.0Paris, second half of the 20th century. Countess Diana de Simerose has been evading the legitimate rights of her husband, who married her without love, since their wedding day. Fed up with the protracted abnormal situation, the count leaves on a journey, perhaps never to return.
L'amico delle donne
1943
Film credits
Behind the camera
8.2Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
Bicycle Thieves
1948
7.6In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
The Children Are Watching Us
1943
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Felicità perduta
1946
NRNo synopsis available yet.
L'invasore
1949
No synopsis available yet.
Il sogno di tutti
1940
10.0Paris, second half of the 20th century. Countess Diana de Simerose has been evading the legitimate rights of her husband, who married her without love, since their wedding day. Fed up with the protracted abnormal situation, the count leaves on a journey, perhaps never to return.
L'amico delle donne
1943
7.0No synopsis available yet.
C'è sempre un ma!
1943
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Forse eri tu l'amore
1939
10.0Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Lamberto Picasso. Nazzari portrays the painter Caravaggio as a wayward genius. It was one of his favourite screen roles.
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto
1941
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Il nostro prossimo
1943
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Il nostro prossimo
1943
10.0No synopsis available yet.
L'abito nero da sposa
1945
6.8An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Before Him All Rome Trembled
1946
7.0No synopsis available yet.
L'ultimo scugnizzo
1938
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La sepolta viva
1949
6.7A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and pursued by lovestruck 18-year-old orphan Teresa Venerdì.
Teresa Venerdì
1941
9.0No synopsis available yet.
La canzone rubata
1940
8.0An electronic engineer is called by the Hungarian Television Directorate to test the new television installations. He arrives in the capital, Budapest, together with his girlfriend.
A Thousand Lire a Month
1939
9.0The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice.
Rossini
1942
7.0The yearnings of three young women: one is concerned about her weight, another aspires to write poems, and the last is already prepared for love and marriage.
Signorinette
1942
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
1944
7.0A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.
Fire Over the Sea
1948
10.0Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.
L'albero di Adamo
1936
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
7.0During the German occupation, the only heir of a rich owner of the Roman countryside, in order to escape capture, lives hidden in a cave. To help him there is a young woman who has been in love with him for a long time. However, one day, during one of those daily visits, the boy abuses her.
Il canto della vita
1945
9.0A woman struggles to make a living after her husband is mistakenly presumed dead.
Nebbie sul mare
1944
7.0Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family.
Addio, amore!
1943
No synopsis available yet.
Mare
1940
7.0A famous tenor has a car accident and asks the owner of a pharmacy for hospitality. The pharmacist’s wife is fascinated by the singer and follows him to Rome. Hovewer, she is sent back home.
Cantate con me!
1940
No synopsis available yet.
Musica in piazza
1936
8.0The Piazzi Conspiracy in a comedy directed by Toni Franguelli.
L'arcidiavolo
1940
No synopsis available yet.
Questi ragazzi
1937
NRNo synopsis available yet.
L'orizzonte dipinto
1941

