Silvagni
Actor · 1900 – 1984 · Gênes, Italie
Giulio Cesare Silvagni (1900–1984) was an Italian writer, actor, painter, and set designer who worked primarily in French. Trained in the visual arts, he collaborated throughout the 1920s and 1930s with major figures of cinema and theatre, including Germaine Dulac and Carl Theodor Dreyer, for whom he designed the sets of Vampyr. A versatile and well‑travelled creator, he directed the 1934 film Adieu au Nord and published several novels marked by a highly personal style and a strong visual sensibility. After settling in Paris, he continued to paint while pursuing various artistic projects, and appeared in Roberto Rossellini’s The Taking of Power by Louis XIV in 1966. He died in 1984, leaving behind a distinctive body of work spanning literature, visual arts, and cinema.
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Movie7.1DramaHistoryCardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.