Vittorio Cottafavi Movies

Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi.

Television movie about Oliver Cromwell.

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...

An adaptation of Joseph Conrad's first novel, taking us to the Malaysian mangrove forests against a backdrop of colonial decadence.

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.

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...

A comedy of misunderstandings caused by words. Walter Chiari is a stage actor who tries to cash a check at a public office.

Evocation of a dramatic episode of the Second World War told by an old guard. Boarded as a non-commissioned officer on the battleship sailed from...

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

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

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

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

A TV adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play.

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.

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.

In a dystopian future, two superpowers have shared the Earth, and both try to conquer the Solar System. The penal colony of Venus becomes the missile...

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...

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio...