Maria Cebotari
Know for: Acting
Born: 1910-02-10
Place of birth: Kishinyov, USSR [now Chisinau, Moldova]
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Mother Song (1937)
A romance between two temperamental singing stars. Highlights include a lengthy selection from Faust, with Gigli making a most impressive...
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...
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto,...
Leckerbissen (1948)
"Gems" - Embedded in a frame story, the film shows excerpts from 18 entertainment films of the time, among others, "The Gypsy Baron", "The Three...
The Dream of Butterfly (1939)
Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria...