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Tosca (1956 film)

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Tosca
Directed byCarmine Gallone
Written byGiuseppe Giacosa (libretto)
Luigi Illica (libretto)
Victorien Sardou (play)
Produced byGiulio Fiaschi
Carmine Gallone
Guido Luzzatto
Manlio Morelli
StarringFranca Duval
Franco Corelli
Vito De Taranto
Afro Poli
CinematographyGiuseppe Rotunno
Edited byNiccolò Lazzari
Music byGiacomo Puccini (opera)
Production
company
Produzione Gallone
Distributed byCEI Incom
Release date
  • 26 August 1956 (1956-08-26)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Tosca is a 1956 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Franca Duval, Afro Poli and Franco Corelli.[1] It is based on the 1900 opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, which was adapted from the 1887 play by Victorien Sardou. It was made at Cinecittà in Rome.

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References

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  1. ^ Goble p. 988

Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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