Vittorio Cottafavi

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice...

Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our...

A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the...

King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the...

An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the...

Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. Princess Amira,...

Leo is a young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to...

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice...

In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small...

In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small...

Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over...

Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the city, he meets Berenice, a mysterious and beautiful...

Leo is a young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to...

In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small...

Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she...

An official, betrayed by his lady servant, joins musketeers such as Athos, while she turns into a countess and a spy that will eventually be executed.

The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic...

Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.

After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice...

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of...

Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi.

In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an...

A Vittorio Cottafavi minisseries about Christopher Columbus.

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio...

Three jailbirds— a surgeon, a robber, and a wrongly convicted man— must adjust to their lives once released from prison.

It is in the late 1930s, and Cesare Pavese, a writer, with two of his friends meets a very uninhibited noble couple.

Italian adaptation of a novel by Simenon.

A group of royalists during the French Revolution make several attempts to rescue Marie Antoinette from prison, in this combination of genres:...

Evocation of a dramatic episode of the Second World War told by an old guard. Boarded as a non-commissioned officer on the battleship sailed from...

Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the city, he meets Berenice, a mysterious and beautiful...

Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.

On the Carso front in 1915, Italians and Austrians fight each other without mercy in a suffocating battle. In the trenches, soldiers discuss their...

The story of a peasant girl of fifteen, Mariute, who comes down from the Carnia mountains to the Friulian plains with her mother at the beginning of...

An adaptation of the Aeschylus play.

Cottafavi's adaptation of the Greek tragedy for RAI.

The trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux.

A machine that creates poetry causes problems.

In a dystopian future, two superpowers have shared the Earth, and both try to conquer the Solar System. The penal colony of Venus becomes the missile...

TV film based on the search for the nazi Adolf Eichmann by Simon Wiesenthal.

The story of a peasant girl of fifteen, Mariute, who comes down from the Carnia mountains to the Friulian plains with her mother at the beginning of...

A young Venetian officer falls in love with a slave girl.

Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.

Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.

The operetta, which was introduced from the headlines and a preamble, is initiated by a particular ballet, which then gives way to the development of...

Adaptation of Shakespeare's play for Italian TV.

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio...

Vittorio Cottafavi's 1973 TV adaptation of Jean Anouih's play on Joan of Arc.

3-part biopic of Dante Alighieri made for Italian public television. Mixes reenacted scenes of Dante's public life with readings of his poems,...

Television movie about Oliver Cromwell.

Based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils.

A scientist kills his rival with a perfect alibi and tries to get away with it.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A rich, corrupt Southern family plots a nefarious business deal, whilst Regina debates murdering her husband.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the Leo Tolstoy play.

Adaptation of the play written in 1923 by Jules Romains.

Two cattle farmers wish to crossbreed their cattle to ensure the continuity of their respective herds.

New to Livorno, a man meets a crying woman on a bridge at midnight, in this tale of love and heartbreak. Believed to be lost.

A TV adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play.

An adaptation of Molière's play.

A TV adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play.

An adaptation of Guglielmo Petroni's book.

A TV movie adapted from a Pirandello play.

Actors read and recite passages by Ubaldo Bertoli, Dante Livio Bianco, Piero Calamandrei, Gino de Sanctis, Paul Eluard, Alfonso Gatto, Natalia...

A comedy of misunderstandings caused by words. Walter Chiari is a stage actor who tries to cash a check at a public office.

The plot by a group of German officers to depose of Adolf Hitler in July 1944.

A married couple is completely absorbed in their heated argument and does not notice that war is raging outside, until bombs begin to fall on their...

Don Giovanni is a handsome gentleman whom women find irresistible; he is equally successful in overcoming his male rivals. Among these, however, is a...

"The wolves" are the commanders of a regiment of revolutionary troops committed to defending France's borders during the Reign of Terror. One of the...

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.

A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.

A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.

A man's encounter with his father.

Adaptation of Molière's play.

An adaptation of Joseph Conrad's first novel, taking us to the Malaysian mangrove forests against a backdrop of colonial decadence.

Based on a chapter of 'Una questione privata' by Beppe Fenoglio, 'La torta di Riccio' recounts an episode of the Resistance. A Fascist officer of the...

Based on a chapter of 'Una questione privata' by Beppe Fenoglio, 'La torta di Riccio' recounts an episode of the Resistance. A Fascist officer of the...

Vittorio Cottafavi's television film Gente delle Langhe, consisting of three episodes, L'eremita (from the Cesare Pavese story of the same name), La...

Vittorio Cottafavi's television film Gente delle Langhe, consisting of three episodes, L'eremita (from the Cesare Pavese story of the same name), La...