History Drama Music
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.
Directed by
Carmine Gallone
Marcello Mastroianni
Gaetano Donizetti
Vira Silenti
Marietta Ricordi
Gabriele Ferzetti
Giacomo Puccini
Renato Malavasi
Ambrogi
Danièle Delorme
Maria
Micheline Presle
Virginia Marchi
Nadia Gray
Giulia Grisi
Maurice Ronet
Vincenzo Bellini
Paolo Stoppa
Giovanni Ricordi
Myriam Bru
Luisa Lewis
Märta Torén
Isabella Colbran
Fausto Tozzi
Arrigo Boito
Memmo Carotenuto
Stuccatore
Aldo Silvani
Il dottore di Bellini
Elisa Cegani
Giuseppina Strepponi
Antoine Balpêtré
Dottor Fleury (uncredited)
Roland Alexandre
Gioacchino Rossini
Tito Gobbi
Cantante
Julien Carette
Felix - l'oste
Giuseppe Porelli
Carlotti (uncredited)
Mimo Billi
(uncredited)
Raimondo Van Riel
Roldano Lupi
Domenico Barbaja
Fosco Giachetti
Giuseppe Verdi
Renzo Giovampietro
Tito Ricordi
Danik Patisson
(uncredited)
Sergio Tofano
Cesarini Sforza
Renata Tebaldi
Cantante
Claudio Ermelli
(uncredited)
Gustavo Serena
Il direttore di scena
Mario Del Monaco
Cantante
Lauro Gazzolo
Carlotti
Rosetta Calavetta
Virginia Marchi
Nelly Corradi
Cantante
Georges Bréhat
Il brigadiere
Italo Tajo
Cantante
Gino Mattera
Cantante
Andrea Mongelli
Cantante
Aldo Ferracuti
Cantante
Juanita Satiman
Cantante
Ken Neale
Cantante
Fernando Lidonni
Cantante
Arturo La Porta
Cantante
Enrico Formichi
Cantante
Giulietta Simionato
Cantante
Gianni Poggi
Cantante
Giulio Neri
Cantante
Marineri Meli
Cantante
Giuseppe Varni
Monti
Manlio Busoni
Il sovrintendente
Paola Rolando
(uncredited)

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