Vittorio Cottafavi Movies

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

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...

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...

Television movie about Oliver Cromwell.

An Italian historical melodrama

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

An adaptation of Molière's play.

The trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux.

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...

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

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...

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

Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.

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

An adaptation of the Aeschylus play.

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

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...

Cottafavi's adaptation of the Greek tragedy for RAI.