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Italian historical drama film

Tosca

Directed by	Carl Koch
Screenplay by	Alessandro De Stefani Carmine Gallone Carl Koch Luchino Visconti (uncredited) Jean Renoir (uncredited)
Story by	Victorien Sardou (play) Giuseppe Giacosa (libretto) Luigi Illica (libretto)
Produced by	Giuseppe Barattolo
Starring	Imperio Argentina Michel Simon Rossano Brazzi
Cinematography	Ubaldo Arata
Edited by	Gino Betrone
Music by	Umberto Mancini
Production company	Scalera Film
Distributed by	Scalera Film
Release date	27 January 1941 (1941-01-27)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Tosca is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Carl Koch and starring Imperio Argentina, Michel Simon and Rossano Brazzi. It is an adaptation of Victorien Sardou's play La Tosca and its subsequent opera version, Tosca, composed by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It was released in the United States as The Story of Tosca.

It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome with location shooting also taking place around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gustav Abel.

Jean Renoir was originally hired as the film's director, and was encouraged to make the film by the French government as part of an effort to encourage Italy to remain neutral in the Second World War. However, he left Rome following Italy's entry into the war and the film was completed by the German director Carl Koch.

In 1943 it was released in Spain (where Imperio Argentina was a major star) by the film studio Cifesa.

Cast

Imperio Argentina as Floria Tosca
Michel Simon as Il barone Scarpia
Rossano Brazzi as Mario Cavaradossi
Carla Candiani as La marchesa Attavanti
Olga Vittoria Gentilli as La regina di Napoli
Adriano Rimoldi as Angelotti
Nicolás D. Perchicot as Sciarrone
Juan Calvo as Spoletta
Nicola Maldacea as Il pittore di corte
Claudio Ermelli as Paisiello
Enzo Musumeci Greco as L'ufficiale della regina

References

^ Durgnat, Raymond (1974). Jean Renoir, pp. 213–215. University of California Press. ISBN 0520022831
Faulkner, Christopher (2014). The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir, p. 122. Princeton University Press

External links

Tosca at IMDb

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