Puccini (Film 1953-ENG SUB)

Puccini is a 1953 Italian biographical musical melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone. Audio in Italian with English subtitles (Click on CC).

The film, shot in Cinecittà in Italian-French co-production, narrates the fictional biography of the composer Giacomo Puccini. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti in the role of Giacomo Puccini. Gabriele Ferzetti will return to play Puccini the following year in the film Casa Ricordi, also directed by Gallone.

This biographical story of Puccini spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madame Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life.

Cast & Characters:
Gabriele Ferzetti: Giacomo Puccini
Märta Torén: Elvira Puccini
Nadia Gray: Cristina Vernini
Paolo Stoppa: Giocondo
Myriam Bru: Delia
Sergio Tofano: Giulio Ricordi
Mimo Billi: Fanelli
Silvio Bagolini: Gianni
Alessandro Fersen: Padre di Delia
Jacques Famery: Antonio Puccini
Carlo Duse: Arrigo Boito
Piero Palermini: Ferdinando Fontana
Oscar Andriani: Giuseppe Giacosa
René Clermont: Luigi Illica
Mario Feliciani: Enrico
Renato Chiantoni: Filippo Tacchi
Attilio Dottesio: Sampieri