The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.

1945 film directed by Carmine Gallone

1953 film by Carmine Gallone

An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

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A screen adaptation of the opera, directed by Carmine Gallone jointly produced by Italy's Cineriz and Japan's Toho, filmed on location in Japan and starring Japanese and Italian actors, dubbed by Italian opera singers. Film version of Puccini's opera in which a young geisha is abandoned by the American father of her son and commits suicide.

Mussolini's government, in addition to making the railroads run on time (and other items not so good), could also produce a movie on a lavish scale, including over 6000 extras in the battle scenes. A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.