Andrea Checchi — Actor (21)

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Tragic Night (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Tragica notte
director: Mario Soldati actor: Doris Duranti / Carlo Ninchi …
other title: Tragische Jagd / Tragica notte
Released from jail, Nanni punches prison guard Stefano who has denounced him. In order to take revenge, Stefano suggests the suspicion that, during his absence, his wife has had business with the Count Paolo. A few days later, at night, a deadly ambush will be prepared. Based on the novel The Trap (1928) by Toscan Delfino Cinelli.

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Bloody Che Contra (1968) WikiData IMDb TMDB
El ''Che'' Guevara
director: Paolo Heusch actor: Francisco Rabal / John Ireland …
other title: Stosstrupp ins Jenseits / El "Che" Guevara (Body Che Contra) …
The story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite ranger unit of the army led by a determined CIA agent, Che is eventually trapped and his men are killed.

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Attention! Bandits! (1951) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Achtung! Banditi!
other title: Partisanen 1944 - Achtung! Banditen! / Achtung! Banditi! …
During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of weapons. Meanwhile, there's a strike in the city and the Nazis are trying to suppress it violently. The factory becomes the scene of fighting between the Germans and the partisans but the latter, aided by the workers, will be able to get the better.

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Erik the Conqueror (1961) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Gli invasori
other title: 정복자 에릭 / Die Rache der Wikinger …
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.

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The Intruder (1956) Douban
L'intrusa
director: 拉法洛·马塔拉佐 actor: 阿梅德奥·纳扎里 / 莱亚·帕多瓦尼 …
other title: 闯入者 / L'intrusa

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Tragic Hunt (1947) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Caccia tragica
director: Giuseppe De Santis actor: 薇薇·吉奥伊 / Andrea Checchi …
other title: 悲惨的追逐 / Caccia tragica …
Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.

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Malombra (1942)
Malombra
other title: 马隆布拉
This utterly gorgeous Gothic melodrama would be widely hailed as a masterpiece, had it not been made in Italy during the Mussolini regime. A gross injustice, as Malombra - unlike Piccolo Mondo Antico, Mario Soldati's earlier film of an Antonio Fogazzaro novel - contains not one moment of triumphalist flag-waving or Fascist family values. Oddly akin to Rebecca in its atmosphere of death-haunted romance and voluptuous doom, it reaches a peak of visual refinement of which Hitchcock could only dream.
Its star is Isa Miranda (famous, and not without reason, as Italy's answer to Garbo and Dietrich) playing a headstrong but unstable young noblewoman, confined by her uncle to a gloomy villa on the shores of Lake Como. A yellowed and crumbling letter, found in an old spinet, convinces her that she is the reincarnation of her uncle's first wife - another troubled beauty who died a virtual prisoner after being caught in a forbidden love affair. When a handsome young writer (Andrea Checchi) comes to stay, Miranda decides that HE is the reincarnation of the dead woman's lover. Gradually, she lures him into her web of sex and revenge...
What more to say without spoiling the fun? Miranda gives a performance to rival any of the great divas of Hollywood. Only Davis and Stanwyck, perhaps, could play a bad girl so boldly without losing all sympathy. The evocation of 19th century aristocracy, in its full decadent splendour, is visually and dramatically flawless - a model for such later Italian gems as Visconti's Senso and The Innocent.
It helped, perhaps, that Soldati himself was a leading novelist. Blessed with an absolute respect for the classics he adapted, but in no way inhibited by them. He was also the guiding spirit of the now-forgotten 'calligraphic' movement, which brought the Italian cinema to such wondrous aesthetic heights during World War Two, only to collapse before the horror of Neo-Realism. Can we blame Soldati for giving up film-making in disgust and going back to writing novels?
So if you've ever felt (as I do) that Rossellini's much-touted Rome - Open City is the work of an amateur...well, Malombra is the film you have to see!

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阿尔卡扎尔之围 (1941) Douban
L'Assedio dell'Alcazar
director: 奥古斯托·吉尼那 actor: 福斯科·贾凯蒂 / 米海伊·巴林 …
other title: L'Assedio dell'Alcazar / Sin novedada en el Alcazar
The day broke the Spanish Civil War, Colonel Jose Moscardo, veteran of Africa, arrived in Madrid to prepare your trip to Berlin with the Spanish delegation that would participate in the Olympic Games. He learned of the military insurrection and quickly returned to Toledo. As commander of the square, Moscardó had no doubts, and at seven in the morning of July 21, 1936 issued the side of war. Aware of the precarious situation, entrenched in the Alcazar 1 800 people in place. Where he resisted constant attacks and bombings until the arrival of the national troops on September 27.