Renzo Ricci

Sandra returns to her hometown to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

Der Film gilt aufgrund seiner neuartigen Filmsprache, die vorüberwiegend auf eine fortlaufende Handlung verzichtet, als einer der Meilensteine des internationalen Films. Er enstand zur Zeit des italienischen Neorealismus.

König Ninurte ist der Herrscher über Assyrien. Aber hinter seinem Rücken werden Intrigen gesponnen. Der oberste Feldherr Onnos will die Macht an sich reißen. Auch Semiramis hat ihre Pläne. Und dann ist da noch Kir, der gefangene König der Dadarier, der Rache für sein versklavtes Volk will…

During a reception in a villa, wealthy banker Calandri is killed in the park with a gunshot. The gamekeeper Barra is immediately arrested, but he declares himself innocent. During the trial it turns out that the defendant had threatened the victim, guilty of courting his sister-in-law. But the deposition of a journalist present at the party soon leads to discover the existence of a dense network of equivocal relations between the victim, the guests and the servants. This judicial setting drama is allegedly the second Italian sound film after "The Song of Love", made using the RCA Photophone recording technique, and is also considered to be the first Italian detective film, a precursor to the later genre of Giallo films.

The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made.

Old fashioned opera adaptation: A feisty and free spirited woman of the Tyrol withdraws to a mountain peak when she is separated from the man she loves. When he later attempts to rejoin her, disaster results.

Unmittelbar nach seinem Abschluss am Konservatorium von Neapel lernt Vincenzo Bellini Maddalena Fumaroli kennen und verliebt sich augenblicklich in sie.