Cesare Zoppetti

Fanfulla da Lodi (1940)

Retroscena (1939)

Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while ...

Jeanne Doré (1938)

Il conte di Bréchard (1938)

Tonight at Eleven (1937)

A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster. ...

Joe il Rosso (1936)

A precious painting suddenly disappears from the house of a noble Italian family. A relative from America investigates the mystery. ...

Arma bianca (1936)

La danza delle lancette (1936)

Lohengrin (1936)

The monotonous life of a bourgeois family is disturbed by the announcement of the imminent return from America of Mr. Lohengrin, who had left Italy years earlier, leaving behind the reputation of being an irresistible womanizer. Lohengrin's cousin, worried ...

Ginevra degli Almieri (1935)

Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they ...

Three Cornered Hat (1935)

A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail. ...

I'll Give a Million (1935)

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt. ...

Seconda B (1934)

A school teacher falls in love with one of his female colleague, who teaches gymnastics. She returns his love, but this discovered by his students who try and sabotage their relationship. ...

Old Guard (1934)

There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the ...

La maestrina (1934)

1860 (1934)

The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encoun ...

Tenebre (1934)

Tourist Train (1933)

The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota. ...

100 of these days (1933)

Count Agostino di Montecorvo's nephew and niece pretend they get married for his hundredth birthday since the old man has had this wish for a long time. But when the count wants them to beget a child as well they are forced to present him with a fake one. ...

The Last Fling (1932)

A youth and an elderly libertine aristocrat vie for the favors of a beautiful woman, amid the setting of Rapallo. ...

Your Money or Your Life (1932)

Daniele, a stockbroker, learns that he has lost a large sum entrusted to him by his friend Giovanni Bensi and he does not have the nerve to tell it in person, so he writes a letter to his friend, telling him that he may collect his life insurance, as he is ...

What Scoundrels Men Are! (1932)

Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver's daughter working as a perfumery's shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer's car to took her on a trip to the l ...

The Table of the Poor (1932)

A bankrupt aristocrat tries to keep up appearances while his situation worsens. To top it off the life savings given to him by a beggar to invest has been mistakenly claimed by the aristocrat's altruist society for their annual Feast of the Poor. ...

The Private Secretary (1931)

During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him. ...

Disaster (1931)