House of Ricordi

House of Ricordi

110 mins | Drama, History, Music | Dec. 1, 1954

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

House of Ricordi

110 mins | Drama, History, Music | Dec. 1, 1954

House of Ricordi
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Cormoran Films, Franco London Films, Documento Films, Diana Cinematografica, Industrie Cinematografice Sociali (ICS), Le Louvre Film
Original title Casa Ricordi
Directors Franco Cirino, Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Nanni Loy, Carmine Gallone
Writers Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Carmine Gallone, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci, Leonardo Benvenuti

Cast

Roland Alexandre

as Gioacchino Rossini

Elisa Cegani

as Giuseppina Strepponi

Danièle Delorme

as Maria

Gabriele Ferzetti

as Giacomo Puccini

Renzo Giovampietro

as Tito Ricordi

Fosco Giachetti

as Giuseppe Verdi

Nadia Gray

as Giulia Grisi

Roldano Lupi

as Domenico Barbaja

Paolo Stoppa

as Giovanni Ricordi

Vira Silenti

as Marietta Ricordi

Myriam Bru

as Luisa Lewis

Marcello Mastroianni

as Gaetano Donizetti

Fausto Tozzi

as Arrigo Boito

Micheline Presle

as Virginia Marchi

Maria Pia Di Meo

as (Voice dubbing for Vira Silenti)

Olinto Cristina

as (Voice dubbing for Giuseppe Vami)

Rosetta Calavetta

as (Voice dubbing for Micheline Presle) / Virginia Marchi

Lydia Simoneschi

as (Voice dubbing for Nadia Gray)

Enrico Maria Salerno

as (Voice dubbing for Roland Alexandre)

Giuseppe Rinaldi

as (Voice dubbing for Maurice Ronet)

Cesare Polacco

as (Voide dubbing for Memmo Carotenuto)

Andreina Pagnani

as (Voice dubbing for Märta Torén & Myriam Bru)

Rina Morelli

as (Voice dubbing for Danièle Delorme)

Pino Locchi

as (Voice dubbing for Fausto Tozzi)

Lauro Gazzolo

as (Voice dubbing for Julien Carette) / Carlotti

Gustavo Serena

as Il direttore di scena

Giuseppe Porelli

as Carlotti

Antoine Balpêtré

as Dottor Fleury

Andrea Mongelli

as Cantante

Aldo Ferracuti

as Cantante

Juanita Satiman

as Cantante

Ken Neale

as Cantante

Fernando Lidonni

as Cantante

Arturo La Porta

as Cantante

Enrico Formichi

as Cantante

Nelly Corradi

as Cantante

Italo Tajo

as Cantante

Renata Tebaldi

as Cantante

Giulietta Simionato

as Cantante

Gianni Poggi

as Cantante

Giulio Neri

as Cantante

Marineri Meli

as Cantante

Gino Mattera

as Cantante

Tito Gobbi

as Cantante

Giuseppe Varni

as Monti

Mario Del Monaco

as Cantante

Sergio Tofano

as Cesarini Sforza

Aldo Silvani

as Il dottore di Bellini

Renato Malavasi

as Ambrogi

Memmo Carotenuto

as Stuccatore

Julien Carette

as Felix - l'oste

Manlio Busoni

as Il sovrintendente

Georges Bréhat

as Il brigadiere

Märta Torén

as Isabella Colbran

Maurice Ronet

as Vincenzo Bellini