Carmine gallon

Carmine gallon

Carmine Gallone , actually Carmelo Camillo Gallone , (born September 18, 1886 in Taggia , Imperia province , † April 4, 1973 in Frascati ) was an Italian film director .

Life

Carmine Gallone began his professional career in 1911 as a writer and translator at the Teatro Argentina in Rome . In 1913 he came to film as a director and established himself in 1914 with the film production company Cines . In many of his early films, the important Italian silent film actress Lyda Borelli (1884-1959) played the female lead.

From 1927 Carmine Gallone worked to a considerable extent in other European countries, for example in France, Great Britain, Hungary, Austria and Germany. After shooting the film Die Stadt der Tausend Freuden for Lothar Stark GmbH in Berlin in 1927 , he directed the Olga- Chekhova film Liebeshölle for Erda-Film GmbH the following year and the Liane Haid film Ship in Not SOS 1929 The country without women with Elga Brink and Mathias Wieman . Gallone's first sound film was a German-British co-production, Naples - The Singing City (1930), which - as was common at that time - was shot in two different language versions. In addition to Brigitte Helm , Jan Kiepura appeared for the first time , whom Gallone was able to establish as a new European singing star with this film.

Even after the National Socialists took office in 1933, Gallone continued his work for German film production companies. In 1934, together with Jan Kiepura and Marta Eggerth , he directed the music film My Heart Calls for You for Arnold Pressburgers Cine-Allianz Tonfilm , which was rated valuable by the film testing agency . A year later he shot the comedy If the music weren't ' (1935) with Paul Hörbiger and Sybille Schmitz . In the German-Italian co-production Mutterlied (1937), Gallone first worked with the tenor Beniamino Gigli . Gigli plays a stage singer, whose private life drama like an opera when he marries a woman with a past . The next film with Gigli - My Heart Belongs to You (1938) - was a game of confusion about a star tenor who tries to spend an undisturbed holiday in the country incognito. Gallone's last work for a German production company was the German-Italian coproduction Die Premiere der Butterfly (1939) with the Moldovan-Austrian soprano Maria Cebotari in the title role. In contrast to many other of his colleagues, Carmine Gallone did not make any propaganda films in Nazi Germany .

After he had recommended himself as a director of lavish monumental and costume films such as Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii (1926), E lucevan le stelle and Casta Diva (both 1935) - he is rightly often compared to Cecil B. DeMille - he became Gallone in 1936 selected for the staging of Mussolini's state-commissioned film Scipione l'africano . This patriotic heroic film from the time of the Punic Wars , starring Annibale Ninchi and Camillo Pilotto , was the most expensive film to be produced in fascist Italy. Gallone's real trademarks, however, were opera films and musical biographies such as Giuseppe Verdi (1938), Il sogno di Butterfly (1939), Manon Lescaut and the Mozart film Melodie eterne (both 1940).

In order to distance herself from the propaganda film Scipione l'africano , Carmine Gallone directed the great anti-fascist film Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma (1946) with Tito Gobbi and Anna Magnani in the leading roles after the end of the war . He also made opera films such as Rigoletto (1946), Addio Mimí , La signora dalle camelie (both 1947), La leggenda di Faust (1948), Il trovatore (1949), Puccini (1952), Cavalleria rusticana (1953), Madama Butterfly (1954) Tosca (1956) and Carmen di Trastevere (1963). Unlike Franco Zeffirelli later , who brought singers in front of the camera for his opera films, Gallone usually cast the main roles with actors, who then received a dubbing voice in the singing roles. To hear - and sometimes to see - were in Gallones post-war films a. a. Nerio Bernardi , Giuseppe Campora , Maria Caniglia , Franco Corelli , Tito Gobbi, Caterina Mancini , Orietta Moscucci , Lina Pagliughi , Franca Sacchi , Antonio Salvarezza and Italo Tajo . In addition to a few other costume and monumental films ( Der Kurier des Zaren , 1956, with Curd Jürgens ; Karthago in Flammen , 1960), he also shot an increasing number of box office hits such as two feature films from the six-part “ Don Camillo ” series with Fernandel and Gino Cervi .

Carmine Gallone was married to the Polish actress Stanislawa Winaver ( Soava Gallone , 1880-1957) since the 1910s , who also appeared in many of his early films.

Filmography

• 1913: Il romanzo
• 1913: Il bacio di Cirano
• 1914: Turbine d'odio
• 1914: Povera Leda ... (short film)
• 1914: La donna nuda (also screenplay)
• 1915: Senza colpa
• 1915: Semper nel cor la patria
• 1915: Fior di male
• 1915: Il bosco sacro
• 1915: Avatar
• 1915: La marcia nuziale (also screenplay)
• 1916: La falena (also screenplay)
• 1917: La storia di un peccato
• 1917: La storia dei tredici
• 1917: Malombra
• 1919: Redenzione
• 1919: Maman poupée
• 1920: Amleto e il suo clown
• 1920: Nemesis
• 1921: Il mare di Napoli
• 1922: La tormenta
• 1922: SE l'ambasciatrice
• 1922: Marcella
• 1923: I volti dell'amore
• 1924: Il corsaro
• 1925: La cavalcata ardente
• 1926: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii
• 1927: Celle qui domine
• 1927: The city of a thousand joys (La ville des milles joies)
• 1928: love hell
• 1928: Schiff in Not SOS (SOS) (also screenplay)
• 1929: The country without women
• 1930: The singing city
• 1931: City of Song (English version of The Singing City )
• 1931: Ma cousine de Varsovie (French version of My Cousine from Warsaw )
• 1931: A raid in Paris (Un soir de rafle)
• 1932: I love you (Un fils d'Amérique)
• 1932: Le chant du marin
• 1932: Le roi des palaces
• 1933: A girl from Vienna (going gay)
• 1933: For Love of You
• 1934: You are the most beautiful woman for me (Two Hearts in Waltz Time)
• 1934: My heart calls for you
• 1934: Mon cœur t'appelle (French version of My Heart Calls for You )
• 1934: My Heart Is Calling (English version of Mein Herz is calling for you )
• 1935: The song of love
• 1935: E lucevan le stelle
• 1935: Charming eyes (Casta diva)
• 1935: The Divine Spark (English version by Casta diva )
• 1936: Opernring
• 1937: Manege / Voice of the Blood
• 1937: Cristoforo Colombo
• 1937: Fall of Carthage (Scipione l'Africano)
• 1938: Mother's Love (Solo per te)
• 1938: Three women around Verdi (Giuseppe Verdi)
• 1938: You own my heart
• 1939: The adventure continues
• 1939: Every woman has a sweet secret
• 1939: puppet
• 1939: Premiere of the Butterfly (Il sogno di Butterfly)
• 1940: Troppo tardi t'ho conosciuta
• 1940: Manon Lescaut
• 1940: Oltre l'amore
• 1940: Melody of Love (Amami, Alfredo!)
• 1940: Melodie eterne
• 1941: Girls in Need (L'amante segreta)
• 1941: Primo amore
• 1942: Odessa in Flames (Odessa in fiamme)
• 1942: Regina di Navarra
• 1942: Homeless (Le due orfanelle)
• 1943: Knock-out (Harlem)
• 1943: Tristi amori
• 1945: Il canto della vita
• 1946: Rigoletto
• 1946: Biraghin
• 1946: Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma
• 1947: your wonderful lie (Addio Mimí!)
• 1947: La Traviata (La signora dalle camelie (La traviata))
• 1948: La leggenda di Faust
• 1949: La forza del destino
• 1949: The Troubadour (Il trovatore)
• 1950: Night taxi (Taxi di notte)
• 1951: Messalina
• 1952: We dance on the rainbow (Senza veli)
• 1953: Puccini - darling of women (Puccini)
• 1953: Sicilian passion (Cavalleria rusticana)
• 1954: The daughter of Mata Hari (La figlia di Mata Hari)
• 1954: Casa Ricordi
• 1954: Madame Butterfly
• 1955: The great battle of Don Camillo (Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone)
• 1955: Love in a minor key (Casta diva)
• 1956: Tosca
• 1956: The Tsar's Courier (Michele Strogoff)
• 1958: Polikuschka (Polikuska)
• 1960: Carthage in flames ( Cartagine in fiamme)
• 1961: Reverend Don Camillo (Don Camillo monsignore… ma non troppo)
• 1962: La monaca di Monza
• 1963: Carmen 63 (Carmen di Trastevere)

Web links

• Carmine Gallone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Carmine Gallone at filmportal.de (only German-language films)
• www.movies2.nytimes.com Short biography (English)
• www.capital.it Biography (Italian)
• Carmine Gallon on MyMovies (Italian).
• Short biography on pacioli.net (Italian)