Roldano Lupi

L'incoronazione di Carlo Magno (1968)

The Trojan Women (1967)

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the anci ...

L'Attaque de Fort Adams (Une aventure de Buffalo Bill) (1965)

Revenge of The Gladiators (1964)

The mighty Gladiator is captured after freeing the misguided emperor's daughter. The girl surrenders herself for his freedom but is again freed by the Gladiator. ...

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (1964)

Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Hand. So he goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox, and tries to convince him to sign a peace tr ...

Hero of Rome (1964)

In ancient Rome, the people finally oust their despised king, Tarquinius, and declare the city a republic. Tarquinius makes an alliance with the Etruscan king, Porsenna, to take back power in Rome, but a Roman general, the heroic Mucius, sets out to stop h ...

Hercules Against the Barbarians (1964)

The eternal Hercules in this film has gone way beyond his usual time and place in ancient Greece and is now helping Poland free itself of Mongol invaders in the 12th century. Mark Forest is the star of this peplum epic, Hercules Against The Barbarians. ...

Avenger of the Seven Seas (1962)

It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing to get it. His second in command, David Robinson, questions his allegiance when Redway kills his father and takes his brother prisoner. In order to save his ...

The Count of Monte Cristo (1961)

Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be ma ...

The Giant of Metropolis (1961)

Obro the muscleman goes to Atlantis and sinks a death-ray king who knows the secret of immortality. ...

The Mongols (1961)

During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues when the former aims for peace and the latter itches for war and conquest. ...

The Seven Revenges (1961)

The leaders of Circassians and Kyrgyz face off in a tournament divided into seven challenges: only one will gain the supremacy. ...

Lui, lei e il nonno (1959)

The Affair of the Poisons (1955)

Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles. Having had enough of the situation, the rejected mistress decides to visit La Voisin, a woman known as ...

Il vetturale del Moncenisio (1954)

During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness. ...

The Queen of Babylon (1954)

In this Biblical epic, a brave Chaldean rebel takes on his evil nemesis, a cruel Assyrian king. En route to his fateful meeting, the rebel hides in the humble hut of a luscious peasant girl. ...

House of Ricordi (1954)

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws th ...

The Contessa's Secret (1954)

The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life. ...

Crossed Swords (1954)

Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia's duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Soon after arrival, Renzo will get in a big trouble and he will be forced to choose between going to church for marriage or going to prison. ...

La campana di San Giusto (1954)

The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One. ...

Koenigsmark (1953)

A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess' reader. ...

Times Gone By (1952)

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories. ...

Il segreto delle tre punte (1952)

Wolves Hunt at Night (1952)

A secret agent is summoned by the head of a counter espionage organization, to Trieste where he is to unmask a potential enemy operating in Venice. ...

Duel Without Honor (1950)

Bianca, a rich heiress, being an orphan, lives in her palace with her guardian uncle and cousin Olga. ...

Sicilian Uprising (1949)

Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi. ...

The Za-Bum Circus (1949)

Anthology comedy/romance film ...

Altura (1949)

The Man with the Grey Glove (1948)

A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, ...

Cab Number 13 (1948)

To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the ...

Lovers Without Love (1948)

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy. ...

Giudicatemi! (1948)

The White Devil (1947)

In the Caucasus a rebel fighter battles against the rule of an oppressive Russian Governor, although he is in real life a prince who pretends to be a supporter of the Governor. ...

Flesh Will Surrender (1947)

Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Giovanni did what he should never have done: he associated hims ...

Pian delle stelle (1946)

Italian fugitives from German war camps unite to form "Lupo", a partisan brigade which uses their knowledge of the countryside to wage their own personal war on the Germans. ...

The Adulteress (1946)

Malìa (1946)

In regional Sicily, Jana tries to repair her sister's marriage by going to a sorceress who makes up a love potion that will bring about the couple's happiness. But the spell only works on Jana herself... ...

The Testimony (1946)

A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace of mind. ...

Umanità (1946)

The meritorious assistance of a US institution, towards the inhabitants of a refugee camp, in the Italian post-war period, among the protagonists a doctor who tries to do everything possible to treat the population in critical health conditions. The docto ...

La freccia nel fianco (1945)

A married woman fights her strange attraction to an aristocratic young pianist from her past. ...

Vivere ancora (1945)

The Gates of Heaven (1945)

Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto. ...

Il cappello da prete (1944)

The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the b ...

Addio, amore! (1943)

Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family. ...

Jealousy (1942)

A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry her because of her status. The marquis commands his trusted subject to marry her in his stead as long as ...

Jealousy (1942)

A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry her because of her status. The marquis commands his trusted subject to marry her in his stead as long as ...