Puccini (1953)
1h 59m
Running Time
April 29, 1953Release Date
Plot.
Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
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Cast & Crew.
Gabriele Ferzetti
Giacomo Puccini
Märta Torén
Elvira Puccini
Paolo Stoppa
Giocondo
Nadia Gray
Cristina Vernini
Myriam Bru
Delia
Sergio Tofano
Giulio Ricordi
Carmine Gallone
Director
Mimo Billi
Fanelli
Leonardo Benvenuti
Writer
Jacques Famery
Antonio Puccini
Glauco Pellegrini
Writer
Gino Sinimberghi
tenore
Aldo Bizzarri
Writer
Antonio Muso
Producer
Nelly Corradi
soprano
Silvio Bagolini
Gianni
Luigi Rovere
Producer
Carlo Duse
Arrigo Boito
Piero Palermini
Ferdinando Fontana
René Clermont
Luigi Illica
Oscar Andriani
Giuseppe Giacosa
Alessandro Fersen
padre di Delia
Angelo Rizzoli
Producer
Claude Renoir
Director of Photography
Alberto De Rossi
Makeup Department Head
Carlo Rustichelli
Original Music Composer
Armando Crispino
Production Secretary
Rolando Benedetti
Editor
Andrea Fantacci
Assistant Set Decoration
Giorgio Arlorio
First Assistant Director
Antonio Musu
Production Manager
Giacomo Puccini
Original Music Composer
Amerigo Gengarelli
Camera Operator
Fernando Previtali
Conductor
Raimondo Van Riel
Makeup Artist
Gastone Medin
Production Design
Ferruccio Viotti
Production Secretary
Mario Parapetti
Camera Operator
Georges Annenkov
Costume Design
Ovidio Del Grande
Sound
Libero Politi
Makeup Artist
Guglielmo Colonna
Unit Manager
Joseph Nathanson
Special Effects
Antonio Leonardi
Set Decoration
Madeleine Rabusson
Assistant Costume Designer
Renato Panetuzzi
Unit Manager
Anna Fabrizzi
Hairstylist
Mario Mandini
Hairstylist
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Puccini is a 1953 Italian biographical musical melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti in the role of Giacomo Puccini.