Rigoletto or Rigoletto and His Tragedy (Italian: Rigoletto e la sua tragedia) is a 1956 Italian musical melodrama film written and directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Luciano Tajoli and Jula De Palma. It is based on the 1851 Giuseppe Verdi opera Rigoletto and incorporated music from that work.[1][2]

Rigoletto
Directed byFlavio Calzavara
Written byFlavio Calzavara
Jacopo Corsi
Paola Ojetti
Produced byFrancesco Granata-Vigo
StarringAldo Silvani
Gérard Landry
Loris Gizzi
CinematographyBitto Albertini
Edited byOtello Colangeli
Music byGiuseppe Verdi
Production
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Diva Film
Distributed byFelix Film
Release date
  • 1956 (1956)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

The film's sets were designed by the art director Franco Lolli.

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References

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  1. ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
  2. ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
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