Tosca (1941)
January 31, 1941Release Date
Tosca (1941)
January 31, 1941Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Imperio Argentina
Floria Tosca
Michel Simon
Il barone Scarpia
Rossano Brazzi
Mario Cavaradossi
Olga Vittoria Gentilli
La regina di Napoli
Carla Candiani
La marchesa Attavanti
Adriano Rimoldi
Angelotti
Carl Koch
Director
Carl Koch
Director
Jean Renoir
Director
Nicolás D. Perchicot
Sciarrone
Alessandro De Stefani
Writer
Juan Calvo
Spoletta
Nicola Maldacea
Il pittore di corte
Carmine Gallone
Writer
Claudio Ermelli
Paisiello
Giuseppe Giacosa
Writer
Enzo Musumeci Greco
L'ufficiale della regina
Luigi Illica
Writer
Ubaldo Arata
Cinematography
Franco Magli
Production Supervisor
Luchino Visconti
Assistant Director
Lotte Reiniger
Assistant Director
Gino Carlo Sensani
Costume Design
Giacomo Puccini
Music
Details.
Wiki.
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.