Vittorio Cottafavi Movies

In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small...

It is in the late 1930s, and Cesare Pavese, a writer, with two of his friends meets a very uninhibited noble couple.

The trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux.

A young Venetian officer falls in love with a slave girl.

Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she...

In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an...

An official, betrayed by his lady servant, joins musketeers such as Athos, while she turns into a countess and a spy that will eventually be executed.

Leo is a young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to...

A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.

A scientist kills his rival with a perfect alibi and tries to get away with it.

Three jailbirds— a surgeon, a robber, and a wrongly convicted man— must adjust to their lives once released from prison.

The story of a peasant girl of fifteen, Mariute, who comes down from the Carnia mountains to the Friulian plains with her mother at the beginning of...

The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic...

The plot by a group of German officers to depose of Adolf Hitler in July 1944.

An adaptation of Guglielmo Petroni's book.

Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.

Adaptation of Shakespeare's play for Italian TV.

Based on a chapter of 'Una questione privata' by Beppe Fenoglio, 'La torta di Riccio' recounts an episode of the Resistance. A Fascist officer of the...

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the Leo Tolstoy play.

A machine that creates poetry causes problems.