Vittorio Cottafavi Movies

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...

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...

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

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...

An Italian historical melodrama

After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.

A Vittorio Cottafavi minisseries about Christopher Columbus.

A scientist kills his rival with a perfect alibi and tries to get away with it.

An adaptation of Molière's play.

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...

Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi

A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.

An adaptation of the Aeschylus play.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of...