House of Ricordi 1954
6.2 /10
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 historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
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Full Cast & Crew
Gioacchino Rossini
Giuseppina Strepponi
Maria
Giacomo Puccini
Tito Ricordi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giulia Grisi
Domenico Barbaja
Giovanni Ricordi
Marietta Ricordi
Luisa Lewis
Gaetano Donizetti
Arrigo Boito
Virginia Marchi
(Voice dubbing for Vira Silenti)
(Voice dubbing for Giuseppe Vami)
(Voice dubbing for Micheline Presle)
(Voice dubbing for Nadia Gray)
(Voice dubbing for Roland Alexandre)
(Voice dubbing for Maurice Ronet)
(Voice dubbing for Märta Torén & Myriam Bru)
(Voice dubbing for Danièle Delorme)
(Voice dubbing for Fausto Tozzi)
(Voice dubbing for Julien Carette)
Virginia Marchi
Cantante
Cantante
Cantante
Cantante
Cantante
Cantante
Cesarini Sforza
Il dottore di Bellini
Carlotti
Stuccatore
Felix - l'oste
Il brigadiere
Isabella Colbran
Vincenzo Bellini
Ambrogi
Carlotti (uncredited)
(uncredited)
(uncredited)
(uncredited)
Dottor Fleury (uncredited)
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THE GOOD:
First off the action in this movie is amazing, to buildings crumbling, to evil blue eyed robots tearing stuff up, this movie has the action perfectly handled. And with that action comes visuals. The visuals are really good, even though you can see clearly where they are through the movie, but that doesn't detract from the experience. While all the CGI glory is taking place, there are lovable characters that are in the mix. First off the original characters, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye, are just as brilliant as they are always. And Joss Whedon fixed my main problem in the first Avengers by putting in more Hawkeye and him more fleshed out. Then there is the new Avengers, Quicksilver, Scarletwich, and Vision, they are pretty cool in my opinion. Vision in particular is pretty amazing in all his scenes.
THE BAD:
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"Avengers: Age of Ultron" is an entertaining adventure with impressive special effects and cast. The storyline might be better, since most of the characters do not show any chemistry. However, it is worthwhile watching this film since the amazing special effects are not possible to be described in words. Why Pietro has to die is also not possible to be explained. My vote is eight.
Cast & crew of
House of Ricordi
Directors & Credit Writers
Camera Operator
Assistant Production Design
Makeup Artist
Screenplay
Screenplay
Screenplay
Screenplay
Screenplay
Story
Cast
Giuseppina Strepponi
Maria
Giacomo Puccini
Tito Ricordi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giulia Grisi
Domenico Barbaja
Giovanni Ricordi
Marietta Ricordi
Luisa Lewis
Gaetano Donizetti
Arrigo Boito
Virginia Marchi
(Voice dubbing for Vira Silenti)
(Voice dubbing for Giuseppe Vami)
(Voice dubbing for Micheline Presle)
(Voice dubbing for Nadia Gray)
(Voice dubbing for Roland Alexandre)
(Voice dubbing for Maurice Ronet)
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