Agostino Salvietti

Acting

Agostino Salvietti

Born — Died

1882-08-28 — 1967-12-02

Place of birth

Naples, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow poster
7.4

Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

1963

The Gold of Naples poster
7.3

A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.

The Gold of Naples

1954

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor poster
5.4

The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

1957

Totò in the Moon poster
5.7

Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.

Totò in the Moon

1958

Dove sta Zaza? poster
7.0

The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their resemblance.

Dove sta Zaza?

1947

Difficult Years poster
7.8

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.

Difficult Years

1948

Film credits

1960s · 7 titles

1950s · 12 titles

The Gold of Naples poster
7.3

A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.

The Gold of Naples

1954

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor poster
5.4

The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

1957

Totò in the Moon poster
5.7

Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.

Totò in the Moon

1958

You, Your Mother, and Me poster
6.7

In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well.

You, Your Mother, and Me

1958

Toto in Paris poster
6.3

Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of this innocence is in the hands of a "competitor", the Marquis de Chemantel de Beauvoiron, a misguided aristocrat. He asked for $ 10 million to cede the document. Duclos will then imagine Chemantel contracting $ 10 million in life insurance for his son. As he discovered in Rome a tramp, a look-alike of the marquis, he will bring this man to Paris and arrange for him to die accidentally.

Toto in Paris

1958

Quel tesoro di papà poster
7.0

A young girl finds out that her father, an impoverished Baron, actually works as a stage actor.

Quel tesoro di papà

1959

A Husband for Anna poster
5.7

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.

A Husband for Anna

1953

The City Stands Trial poster
6.4

Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.

The City Stands Trial

1952

Santo disonore poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Santo disonore

1950

Il mago per forza poster
10.0

In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.

Il mago per forza

1951

Gli innocenti pagano poster
6.5

Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier and falls for her.

Gli innocenti pagano

1952

Destino poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Destino

1951

1940s · 12 titles

Dove sta Zaza? poster
7.0

The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their resemblance.

Dove sta Zaza?

1947

Difficult Years poster
7.8

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.

Difficult Years

1948

Fra' Diavolo poster
6.7

The leader of a band of mountain bandits defending Naples against the French plays a dual role as a police official. Our romantic hero pivots as well between two women, the sister of a royalist and a lady spy.

Fra' Diavolo

1942

Campane a martello poster
6.2

Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.

Campane a martello

1949

Il barone Carlo Mazza poster
6.0

Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a rich inheritance. She is ultimately forced to marry the penniless and bizarre baron Carlo Mazza but the baron, tired of his wife's escapades, decides to divorce her...

Il barone Carlo Mazza

1948

Marechiaro poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Marechiaro

1949

Le due madonne poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le due madonne

1949

The Man with the Grey Glove poster
10.0

A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.

The Man with the Grey Glove

1948

Eleven Men and a Ball poster
6.5

In post-war Rome, rival team executives orchestrate a chaotic series of comedic romantic schemes and sports-journalism kidnappings to sabotage a star soccer player before a championship match.

Eleven Men and a Ball

1948

L'isola de Montecristo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'isola de Montecristo

1948

Canto, ma sottovoce... poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Canto, ma sottovoce...

1946

Lost in the Dark poster
9.0

Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries to blackmail the father.

Lost in the Dark

1947