The Other (1947 film)

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The Other
Film poster
Directed by	Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Written by	Sergio Amidei Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Aldo De Benedetti Anton Giulio Majano Guglielmo Morandi
Starring	Blanchette Brunoy Fosco Giachetti Maria Michi
Cinematography	Piero Portalupi
Edited by	Roberto Cinquini
Music by	Renzo Rossellini
Production company	Excelsa Film
Distributed by	Minerva Film
Release date	24 October 1947 (1947-10-24)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Other (Italian: L'altra) is a 1947 Italian crime melodrama film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Blanchette Brunoy, Fosco Giachetti and Maria Michi.^[1] It was an early example blending film noir and melodrama in Italian cinema.^[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Gianni Mazzocca.

Synopsis

A pre-war romance between an engineer and a woman leads to the birth of a son. Subsequently married to another man, a pianist, the old relationship comes back to impact the present with tragic results.

Cast

Blanchette Brunoy as Vera de Santis
Fosco Giachetti as Pianista Marco de Santis
Maria Michi as 'Angelo' Morelli
Marcello Pagliero as Ing. Andrea Venturi
Aristide Baghetti as Giovanni il Maggiordomo
Pietro Carini as Carluccio de Santis
Emilio Cigoli as Commissario
Carlotta De la Croix as Governante di Carluccio
Augusto Mastrantoni as Quaroni
Livio Pavanelli as Impresario Francese

References

^ Bayman p.187
^ Curti p.49

Bibliography

Bayman, Louis. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
Curti, Roberto. Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History. McFarland, 2022.

External links

The Other at IMDb
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Films directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Your Money or Your Life (1932)
Bad Subject (1933)
Unripe Fruit (1934)
Tomb of the Angels (1937)
Mad Animals (1939)
Two on a Vacation (1940)
The Prisoner of Santa Cruz (1941)
After Casanova's Fashion (1942)
Violets in Their Hair (1942)
Music on the Run (1943)
Come Back to Sorrento (1945)
The Other (1947)
The White Primrose (1947)
47 morto che parla (1950)
Figaro Here, Figaro There (1950)
Bluebeard's Six Wives (1950)
Toto Looks for a Wife (1950)
Una bruna indiavolata! (1951)
At Sword's Edge (1952)
Don Lorenzo (1952)
I'm the Hero (1952)
Orient Express (1954)
The Queen of Babylon (1954)
The Mighty Crusaders (1958)
The Sword and the Cross (1958)
Tuppe tuppe, Marescià! (1958)
Hannibal (1959)
The Loves of Hercules (1960)
Amazons of Rome (1961)
Ursus in the Valley of the Lions (1961)
The Four Musketeers (1963)

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