Tag: Alessandro Cicognini

Film: Earth Cries Out, The / Il grido della terra (1949)

Film: Earth Cries Out, The / Il grido della terra (1949)

May 26, 2018 | By

Since its restoration in 2008, The Earth Cries Out is regarded as one of the earliest films chronicling the founding of Israel, made 9 years before the publication of Leon Uris’ best-selling novel Exodus, and Otto Preminger’s epic 1960 film version…

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DVD: Wife for a Night / Moglie per una notte (1952)

DVD: Wife for a Night / Moglie per una notte (1952)

June 3, 2015 | By

Though Mario Camerini’s perhaps better known for his mythic film versions of Ulysses (1955) and the Kali Yug diptych from the Sixties, he certainly proved himself an able comedy director with his adaptation of the Anna Bonacci play (“L’Ora della Fantasia”)…

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