Tosca (1941)
January 31, 1941Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Imperio Argentina
Floria Tosca
Michel Simon
Il barone Scarpia
Rossano Brazzi
Mario Cavaradossi
Carla Candiani
La marchesa Attavanti
Olga Vittoria Gentilli
La regina di Napoli
Adriano Rimoldi
Angelotti
Nicolás D. Perchicot
Sciarrone
Nicola Maldacea
Il pittore di corte
Claudio Ermelli
Paisiello
Enzo Musumeci Greco
L'ufficiale della regina
Juan Calvo
Memmo Carotenuto
Parrucchiere della regina
Carl Koch
Director
Jean Renoir
Co-Director
Salvatore Scalera
Producer
Giuseppe Giacosa
Writer
Michele Scalera
Producer
Alessandro De Stefani
Screenplay / Adaptation
Luigi Illica
Writer
Carl Koch
Director / Adaptation
Ubaldo Arata
Cinematography
Gino Betrone
Editor
Victorien Sardou
Playback Singer
Arturo Ambrosio
Production Manager
Details.
This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Tosca is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Carl Koch and starring Imperio Argentina, Michel Simon and Rossano Brazzi. It is an adaptation of Victorien Sardou's play La Tosca and its subsequent opera version, Tosca, composed by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It was released in the United States as The Story of Tosca.
It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome with location shooting also taking place around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gustav Abel.
Jean Renoir was originally hired as the film's director, and was encouraged to make the film by the French government as part of an effort to encourage Italy to remain neutral in the Second World War. However, he left Rome following Italy's entry into the war and the film was completed by the German director Carl Koch.
In 1943 it was released in Spain (where Imperio Argentina was a major star) by the film studio Cifesa.