Silvia Manto

The Revenge of Baccarat (1948)

In Paris, in the middle of the 19th century, the Comte de Chamery died of poisoning, leaving a considerable fortune to his long-dead son. Sir William, the count's murderer, hires a young rogue, Rocambole, to pretend to be the deceased's son. The two accomp ...

Rocambole (1948)

In the 19th century, a thug from the slums of Paris pretends to be a young aristocrat, but is unmasked by a demi-mondaine, from the same background as him. ...

Sangue a Ca' Foscari (1947)

La buona fortuna (1945)

Rosalba (1945)

L'ultimo sogno (1944)

We the Living, Part Two (1942)

After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira. ...

We the Living, Part One (1942)

At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political troubl ...

Divieto di sosta (1941)

A wealthy widow becomes infatuated with an adventurer posing as a poet and, forgetting her responsibilities as a mother and her no longer young age, falls prey to a love frenzy in her family that puts her at odds with her daughter, who has just left boardi ...

Nozze vagabonde (1936)