Vittorio Cottafavi Movies

A machine that creates poetry causes problems.

3-part biopic of Dante Alighieri made for Italian public television. Mixes reenacted scenes of Dante's public life with readings of his poems,...

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...

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

A television film by Vittorio Cottafavi. It's believed that this TV film has been lost.

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

Cottafavi's adaptation of the Greek tragedy for RAI.

Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge is an Italian adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

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...

Sci-fi film made for TV by Vittorio Cottafavi.

An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the...

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice...

TV film by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the search for the nazi Adolf Eichmann by Simon Wiesenthal.

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...

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...

An Italian historical melodrama

A TV movie adapted from a Pirandello play.