Tag: Marco Tullio Giordana
Reviews of The Jester’s Supper / La cena delle beffe (1942) from One 7 Movies with Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida, Italy’s wartime silver screen power couple whose tragic final years and execution were dramatized in Wild Blood / Sangepazzo (2008) from eOne.
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In April of 1945, two of Italy’s most popular actors were arrested by anti-Fascist partisans, reportedly hurried through a quick sentencing, and taken into the street where Osvaldo Valenti and his pregnant lover Luisa Ferida were executed by gunfire – a brutal event that undoubtedly horrified the pair’s fans, and left a dark footnote in the history of Italian film…
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