Alba De Céspedes

Writing

Alba De Céspedes

Born March 11, 1911 · Rome, Italy

Died November 14, 1997 · aged 86

Alba de Céspedes y Bertini (1911–1997) was a Cuban-Italian writer. She was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a Cuban ambassador to Italy) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. De Céspedes worked as a journalist in the 1930s for Piccolo, Epoca, and La Stampa. In 1935, she wrote her first novel, L’Anima Degli Altri. Her fiction writing was greatly influenced by the cu…

Known For

Baby DollBaby Doll · 1968
Baby Doll
★ 7.41968
MovieComedy
A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.
Le AmicheLe Amiche · 1955
Le Amiche
★ 6.71955
MovieDramaRomance
Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.
100 Years of Love100 Years of Love · 1954
100 Years of Love
★ 7.51954
MovieComedyDrama
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
I, His FatherI, His Father · 1939
I, His Father
★ 6.51939
MovieDramaRomance
An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.
Questo mondo proibitoQuesto mondo proibito · 1963
Questo mondo proibito
★ 7.01963
MovieDocumentary
The film in its first part intends to show the alienation of modern man by advertising, then talks to us about the image of women in advertising, society, entertainment, fashion, dreams, fantasies. Its last part is composed of saucy fake scopitones .
No One Comes BackNo One Comes Back · 1945
No One Comes Back
★ 6.01945
MovieComedyDrama
A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
Le siècle des lumièresLe siècle des lumières · 1993
Le siècle des lumières
★ 10.01993
SeriesDrama
Follows the story of three privileged Creole orphans from Havana, as they meet French adventurer Victor Hugues and get involved in the revolutionary turmoil that shook the Atlantic World at the end of the eighteenth century. The main characters are all members of one family: two siblings, Carlos and Sofia, and their cousin Esteban.

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