House of Ricordi

Dec 1, 1954

1h 50m

★ 6.2

Overview

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.

Genres

History

Drama

Music

Production Companies

Cormoran Films

Documento Film

Industrie Cinematografiche Sociali (ICS)

Franco London Films

House of Ricordi Trailers

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Cast

Gioacchino Rossini

Roland Alexandre

Giuseppina Strepponi

Elisa Cegani

Maria

Danièle Delorme

Giacomo Puccini

Gabriele Ferzetti

Tito Ricordi

Renzo Giovampietro

Giuseppe Verdi

Fosco Giachetti

Giulia Grisi

Nadia Gray

Domenico Barbaja

Roldano Lupi

Giovanni Ricordi

Paolo Stoppa

Marietta Ricordi

Vira Silenti

Luisa Lewis

Myriam Bru

Gaetano Donizetti

Marcello Mastroianni

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