Volcano (1950)
February 2, 1950Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Anna Magnani
Maddalena Natoli
Rossano Brazzi
Donato
Geraldine Brooks
Maria, Maddalena's sister
Eduardo Ciannelli
Giulio
Adriano Ambrogi
Don Antonio
Enzo Staiola
Nino
Lucia Belfadel
Rosina Galli
William Dieterle
Director
Renzo Avanzo
Story / First Assistant Director
Mario Chiari
Screenplay / Production Design
Piero Tellini
Screenplay
Victor Stoloff
Screenplay
Vitaliano Brancati
Screenplay
Arturo Gallea
Director of Photography
Giancarlo Cappelli
Editor
Fosco Maraini
Second Unit Director of Photography
Antonio Belviso
Camera Operator
Marcello Gatti
Assistant Camera
Giovanni Canavero
Sound
Raffaele Del Monte
Sound
Idolo Tancredi
Construction Coordinator
Arthur Oliver
Production Manager
Pietro Moncada
Production Assistant
L. Quintino di Napoli
Production Assistant
Gianmaria Messeri
Unit Manager
Maria Pia De Giorgio
Script Supervisor
Enzo Masetti
Original Music Composer
Francesco Molinari Pradelli
Conductor
Francesco Alliata
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 2, 1950
Original NameVulcano
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Genres
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Wiki.
Volcano (Italian title Vulcano) is a 1950 Italian drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Anna Magnani, Rossano Brazzi, and Geraldine Brooks. It was filmed on location on Salina Island, in the Aeolian Islands, and in the city of Messina on Sicily.
Vulcano has been seen by some as a vehicle of revenge by Anna Magnani against her estranged lover at the time, Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, who had chosen Ingrid Bergman to star in his film series about marriage, instead of her. Rossellini made his film Stromboli
on the nearby volcanic island of Stromboli at the same time as Volcano was being made on Salina.
Both films were shot simultaneously in similar locales in the Aeolian Islands, only 40 km apart; both actresses played independent-minded roles in a neorealist fashion. Life magazine wrote, "... in an atmosphere crackling with rivalry... Reporters were accredited, like war correspondents, to one or the other of the embattled camps.... Partisanship infected the Via Veneto (boulevard in Rome), where Magnaniacs and Bergmaniacs clashed frequently." However, Magnani still considered Rossellini the "greatest director she ever acted for".