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Fosco Giachetti

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Fosco Giachetti

Born March 28, 1900 · Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy

Died December 22, 1974 · aged 74

Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor. Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of Lo squadrone bianco (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fascist propaganda films such as Tredici uomini e un cannone (1936), Sentinelle di bronzo (1937), Scipione l'Africano, Edgar Neville's Italian Carmen fra i rossi (1939), L'…

Known For

The ConformistThe Conformist · 1971
The Conformist
★ 7.61971
MovieDrama
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
The Life of Giuseppe VerdiThe Life of Giuseppe Verdi · 1938
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
★ 9.51938
MovieMusicDrama
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
Conqueror of the OrientConqueror of the Orient · 1961
Conqueror of the Orient
★ 8.01961
MovieActionAdventure
Centuries ago in the Orient, the fiscal exactions on the people lead to a revolt against the usurper of the throne, and the empowerment of a new leader.
Love and LarcenyLove and Larceny · 1960
Love and Larceny
★ 7.21960
MovieComedy
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
The InheritorThe Inheritor · 1973
The Inheritor
★ 6.41973
MovieThrillerDrama
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
House of RicordiHouse of Ricordi · 1954
House of Ricordi
★ 6.31954
MovieHistoryDrama
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Plains of BattlePlains of Battle · 1962
Plains of Battle
★ 10.01962
MovieActionAdventure
Despite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach them how to become real Cossacks.
The Glass CastleThe Glass Castle · 1950
The Glass Castle
★ 5.81950
MovieRomanceDrama
Evelyne, the young wife of Judge Bertal, falls in love with Remy, who lives in Paris, on holiday in Italy. After following him in the lovers city, she realises Remy is whom she really loves, and decides to return home to inform her husband – but her plane crashes.

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