Vittorio Cottafavi

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice...

Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our...

A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the...

King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the...

An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the...

Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. Princess Amira,...

Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of...

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice...

In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small...

In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small...

Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over...

Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the city, he meets Berenice, a mysterious and beautiful...

Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of...

In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small...

Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she...

Very stylish Italian swashbuckler - The Three Musketeers from the viewpoint of Milady de Winter

The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic...

Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.

After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice...

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of...

Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi

In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an...

A Vittorio Cottafavi minisseries about Christopher Columbus.

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio...

Three jailbirds - a surgeon, a robber and a wrongly convicted man must adjust to their lives once released from prison.

Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge is an Italian adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

Evocation of a dramatic episode of the Second World War told by an old guard. Boarded as a non-commissioned officer on the battleship sailed from...

Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the city, he meets Berenice, a mysterious and beautiful...

Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.

The story of a peasant girl of fifteen, Mariute, who comes down from the Carnia mountains to the Friulian plains with her mother at the beginning of...

Sci-fi film made for TV by Vittorio Cottafavi.

The trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux.

A machine that creates poetry causes problems.

TV film by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the search for the nazi Adolf Eichmann by Simon Wiesenthal.

An adaptation of the Aeschylus play.

Cottafavi's adaptation of the Greek tragedy for RAI.

The story of a peasant girl of fifteen, Mariute, who comes down from the Carnia mountains to the Friulian plains with her mother at the beginning of...

An Italian historical melodrama

Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.

Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.

The operetta, which was introduced from the headlines and a preamble, is initiated by a particular ballet, which then gives way to the development of...

Vittorio Cottafavi's 1973 television adaptation of Jean Anouih's play on Joan of Arc.

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio...

Television movie about Oliver Cromwell.

3-part biopic of Dante Alighieri made for Italian public television. Mixes reenacted scenes of Dante's public life with readings of his poems,...

A scientist kills his rival with a perfect alibi and tries to get away with it.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

An italian-spanish co-production directed by Vittorio Cottafavi.

A television film by Vittorio Cottafavi. It's believed that this TV film has been lost.

A TV adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play.

An adaptation of Molière's play.

A TV adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play.

An adaptation of Guglielmo Petroni's book.

A TV movie adapted from a Pirandello play.

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.

A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.

A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.

A man's encounter with his father.