Convegno sul Restauro - Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma

Thursday, July 10, at 7:00 p.m. - Frau Hall

Next to he trembled all of Rome
a film by Carmine Gallone

cast Anna Magnani (2008 is the centenary of her birth),
GinoSinimberghi, Ave Ninchi

restoration performed by the
National Film Library
to by Ripley's Film

During the restoration, carried out in 2003, unpublished scenes were found, so the missing parts are being inserted.

A Tosca set in German-occupied Rome, Avanti to lui tremava tutta Roma came out on Italian screens, with enormous success, a few months after Roma città aperta, and grafted into the climate of neorealism the "film-opera" of which Gallone is the undisputed master.
Anna Magnani is Ada, an opera singer who, together with her partner - tenor Marco(Gino Sinimberghi) who has the role of Cavaradossi - is preparing the staging of Tosca. Both are militants in the Resistance. Marco hides an English soldier in the house, and Ada, believing him to be a rival, denounces him to a Nazi officer. Contrary to Sardou´s drama and Puccini´sopera , Marco/Cavaradossi will not be killed. In fact, the Germans try to arrest the two men at the end of the performance, but Ada/Tosca and the theater stagehands succeed to in rescuing them and letting them escape.

The Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale and Ripley´s Film, in collaboration with Marzi srl and with the support of Spoleto 51 Festival dei 2 Mondi, present the restored version of the film Avanti to lui tremava tutta Roma, directed in 1946 from Carmine Gallone, with an extraordinary performance by Anna Magnani.

L'opera by Gallone, considered the greatest interpreter of the film-opera, a genre that was fortunate in the years following World War II, proves to be particularly interesting because of the mixture of a popular, highly codified cinema such as the film-opera, and the aesthetic and thematic stresses of neorealism. "Gallone inextricably interweaves lyric and life as to wishing to claim, even in the most dramatic moments of national history (the film takes place to straddling June 4, 1944, when Rome was liberated), the centrality of the national melodramatic tradition (and thus, indirectly, of his entire career as a director), capable also of inspiring civil sentiments and libertarian passions" (Paolo Mereghetti).

In Avanti to lui tremava tutta Roma Anna Magnani (voiced by the famous soprano Renata Tebaldi in the scenes from Tosca) abandons the popular characters that made her famous to return to playing a refined woman of the theater, a role that had made her known to the general public in the 1930s.

Restoration notes
The film required a complex restoration process, articulated in several stages, and begun in 1991, when an initial copy was found at the Lausanne Film Library. The version made now includes some scenes, totaling 11 minutes, that were still missing from earlier workings. The additional scenes, which finally allow the film to be seen in its complete edition, were derived from a 16mm dupe identified in Ripley´s Film archive and were digitally imported and inserted after a philological comparison of the different versions.

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