Ritorno (1939)

"Traummusik"

Director/Regia:
Geza Von Bolvary
Giuseppe Fatigati

Writer/Soggetto
Guido Cantini (1889-1945)

Music
Riccardo Zandonai 1883-1944

Art Director
Giorgio Pinzauti

Cast
Rossano Brazzi
Maurizio D'Ancora (b.1912)
Beniamino Gigli (1880-1957)
Marte/Marta/Martha Harell
Werner Hinz
Guglielmo Sinaz

Production
La Itala Film

Notes
D'Ancora's real name was Rodolfo Gucci.
Gigli was a well-known and enormously popular operatic tenor. His works are still available.
Sinaz also appeared with Rossano in La grande aurora, Noi Vivi/Addio Kira and Silenzio, si gira!

Synopsis/Review
Rossano plays the role of Michele Donato, a musician, composer and director. "Ritorno" refers to the operatic work he is composing, "The Return of Ulysses" ... specifically created as the debut vehicle for his love, a beautiful singer played by Marte/Martha Herell. Disillusioned with what he perceives as her abandonment of his work on her road to success, he nearly destroys it by re-working it as a contemporary showtune piece, only to catch himself at the last minute. She performs the work at La Strada to critical acclaim, along with tenor Beniamino Gigli.

Rossano's intensity as a performer has always lended itself well to roles as musicians - specifically pianists - and conductors, and this is one of his earliest performances as an orchestral conductor, a role he took up again in Interlude and then again, briefly, in The Battle of the Villa Fiorita.

Photos
(Top and left) From Cinevita, 26 September 1942. Courtesy of Connie Liss.

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