Giuseppe Varni
Know for: Acting
Born: 1902-03-20
Place of birth: Warsaw, Russian Empire [now Poland]
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Taxi di notte (1950)
A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in...
Primo amore (1941)
An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Black Magic (1949)
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
House of Ricordi (1954)
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other...
Eugenia Grandet (1946)
Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in...
Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946)
An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
The Great Way (1947)
A pair of Poles deported to Siberia are taken to the army formed by General Anders and along the battle trail.
Casta diva (1954)
As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
Quo Vadis (1951)
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical...
Il trovatore (1949)
Azucena, daughter of a Gypsy burnt at the stake, to take her revenge kidnaps one of the children of Count de Luna and raises him in secret as her own.
La portatrice di pane (1950)
France, 1860. A young widow is wrongly accused of murder and, after serving many years in prison, she escapes to find the real culprit.
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940)
A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day,...
Rigoletto (1946)
This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda....
Odessa in Flames (1942)
The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian...
Tristi amori (1943)
Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.
Eternal Melody (1940)
The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Affairs of Messalina (1951)
A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor...
La forza del destino (1950)
Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.