Villafranca (film)

Villafranca
Still with Enzo Biliotti and Pina Cei
Directed by	Giovacchino Forzano
Written by	Giovacchino Forzano Benito Mussolini (play)
Starring	Corrado Racca Annibale Betrone Enzo Biliotti
Cinematography	Ubaldo Arata Augusto Tiezzi Giovanni Vitrotti
Edited by	Giacinto Solito
Music by	Antonio Cantù
Production company	Forzano Film
Distributed by	Fono Roma
Release date	19 January 1934 (1934-01-19)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Villafranca is a 1934 Italian historical drama film directed by Giovacchino Forzano and starring Corrado Racca, Annibale Betrone and Enzo Biliotti. It was based on a play by Benito Mussolini, then Italian dictator, about the 1859 agreement between Napoleon III and Count Cavour which led to the Second Italian War of Independence.

The film was made at the Fert Studios in Turin and on location in the city, which had been the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia at the time of the film's events.

Cast

• Corrado Racca as Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour
• Annibale Betrone as Vittorio Emanuele II
• Enzo Biliotti as Napoleone III
• Pina Cei as principessa Clotilde di Savoia
• Giulio Donadio as Castelli
• Alberto Collo as Il canonico Gazzelli - confessore di casa Savoia
• Giulio Oppi as il marchese Virago di Vische
• Ernesto Marini as Margotti
• Gustavo Conforti
• Vasco Brambilla
• Felice Minotti
• Nino Bellini
• Edoardo Biraghi
• Cellio Bucchi
• Valentino Bruchi
• Isora Cardinali
• Guido De Monticelli
• María Denis
• Luigi Erminio D'Olivo
• Carlo Duse
• Oreste Fares
• Mario Ferrari
• Luigi Lampugnani
• Giulio Paoli
• Guido Petri
• Renato Tofone
• Edoardo Toniolo
• Egle Arista
• Angelo Bassanelli
• Roberto Pasetti

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• Villafranca at IMDb