Writing

Vincenzo Talarico

Born — Died

1909-04-28 — 1972-08-16

Place of birth

Acri, Cosenza, Italy

Known for

Writing

Credits

37 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 5 titles

1950s · 7 titles

Behind the camera

Primo applauso poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Primo applauso

1957

Senza cielo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Senza cielo

1940

Where Is Freedom? poster
6.5

A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.

Where Is Freedom?

1954

È caduta una donna poster
10.0

In Milan, an unwed mother, forced to flee from her town because of the scandal, meets a doctor who falls in love with her and marries her. But the couple's relationship breaks down almost immediately: the husband is unable to leave behind the woman's past and can not stand a son not his. So Dina, in an attempt to readjust the rapport, entrusts the child to the care of the mother of her seducer (meanwhile deceased). But the sacrifice is beyond her strength, and she's soon taken by the irresistible desire to get her child back: in damp and foggy night, on her way to the station...

È caduta una donna

1941

It Happened at the Police Station poster
6.5

Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.

It Happened at the Police Station

1954

Outlaw Girl poster
7.2

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.

Outlaw Girl

1950

Totò Seeks Peace poster
6.5

Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance.

Totò Seeks Peace

1954

Una piccola moglie poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Una piccola moglie

1943

Frisky poster
7.2

The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.

Frisky

1954

India: Matri Bhumi poster
7.1

Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.

India: Matri Bhumi

1960

100 Years of Love poster
7.5

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.

100 Years of Love

1954

Me, Me, Me... and the Others poster
6.2

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

1966

Lure of the Sila poster
6.2

Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear him. But Rocco, Orsola's brother, dreading a family scandal, constrains Orsola to silence. Condemned despite his innocence, Pietro escapes from prison, but the police track him down and kill him, and his mother, before the eyes of Rosaria. Years pass, and one day Rocco stumbles upon a half-frozen young woman lying in the snow. He takes her home and confides her to the care of Orsola. Later, yielding to the pleas of Orsola, Rocco and Rocco's son, Salvatore, the girl stays on in the house, and Salvatore falls in love with the beautiful stranger, who is careful to keep the family members from learning she is Rosaria, the grown up sister of Pietro seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and mother.

Lure of the Sila

1949

Genitori in blue-jeans poster
6.6

Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.

Genitori in blue-jeans

1960

Mid-Century Loves poster
5.2

Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.

Mid-Century Loves

1954

The Moralist poster
6.4

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.

The Moralist

1959

The Bigamist poster
6.6

A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.

The Bigamist

1956

Il medico dei pazzi poster
7.1

Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.

Il medico dei pazzi

1954

Easy Years poster
6.8

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.

Easy Years

1953

Il conte di Matera poster
7.0

Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is deserted and he begins to commit abuses and violence.

Il conte di Matera

1957

Onore e sangue poster
9.0

A humble clerk is forced to take on debts to cure his mother.

Onore e sangue

1957

Il diavolo in convento poster
8.0

March 1945: an air raid destroys a fishing village. The homeless are hosted by Brother Angelo in the convent of San Fruttuoso in Camogli: years pass but the houses are not rebuilt and when the prior dies, the convent is sold to the rich engineer Milone, determined to transform it into a holiday complex. To prevent the homeless from ending up on the streets, Brother Angelo devises every possible expedient, even a fake miracle while waiting for San Fruttuoso to perform a real one.

Il diavolo in convento

1950

La morte civile poster
10.0

Young Rosalia marries the painter Corrado Palmieri, but gets disowned by her family, opposed to the marriage. Then during a fight, Corrado kills his brother in law and is sentenced to a life sentence.

La morte civile

1942

No artwork available
7.0

Over 10 years of Italian history, drawn together from newsreels.

10 years of our life

1953

Bitterly poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bitterly

1956