
Birthday:
07-08-1894
Deathday:
01-04-1998 (103 years)
Birthplace:
Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Biography
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (8 July 1894 – 4 January 1998) was an Italian film director whose career spanned from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. He mainly directed adventure pictures and popular comedies, including some starring Totò . His 1942 film I Don't Pay You! was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
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Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Director
event1950 star_border 5.1
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Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
Pazza di gioia
Director
event1940 star_border 6
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A modest accountant wins a utility vehicle in a contest and publishes an ad looking for a companion to share expenses on a vacation trip. An attractive young lady answers the ad, but at the meeting place, the girl mistakes the accountant for a millionaire, who of course, leaves with her...
L'allegro fantasma
Story
event1941 star_border 5.1
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The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.
Il fidanzato di mia moglie
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event1943 star_border 8
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Enrico breaks up his marriage to Renata because he discovers that in the registry office she is already married to a certain Giulio, an inhabitant of a country town. The couple leaves in search of the mysterious Giulio who is about to marry Marcella, but her wedding also ends.
The Loves of Hercules
Director
event1960 star_border 3.4
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Hercules decides to avenge the death of his wife, murdered at the hands of Éurito, king of Ecalia, but everything is a plot of an ambitious courtier. Hercules ends up falling in love with Deyanira, who is now a good queen.
Totò le Mokò
Director
event1949 star_border 6.9
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Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.
Animal Crackers
Director
event1939 star_border 5.1
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After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.
Non ti pago!
Story
event1942 star_border 7.2
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The owner of a lottery store refuses to pay a large sum won by one of his workers that he hates, because that man received the winning numbers in a dream.
47 Talking Corpses
Director
event1950 star_border 7.1
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Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul.
Casanova farebbe così!
Director
event1942
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A country braggart bets that he can spend a night with a local beauty. When he is surprised by her husband, he is not only forced to pay his friends money but also challenged to come up with a new identity other than Casanova or Don Juan.
Figaro qua... Figaro là
Director
event1950 star_border 5.9
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In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
Totò cerca moglie
Director
event1950 star_border 6.3
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Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.
Amazons of Rome
Director
event1961 star_border 4.5
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Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages, including Clelia, the sexy leader of a clan of woman warriors. But before long, intrigue and betrayal unravel the fragile peace. Directors Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and Vittorio Cottafavi helm this vintage sword-and-sandal epic.
Lazzarella
Director
event1957 star_border 6.4
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Luciano, who studies at the university, falls in love with Sandra, a high school student, who returns his love. If her family is very rich, his family is of modest extraction; however, the difference in condition does not seem to be a problem, and Luciano's degree increases the hope of a happy future. However, following a sudden financial collapse, Sandra's family business failed: so, to help her parents, the girl accepted the kindness of a very rich childhood friend, deciding to marry him.
The Queen of Babylon
Director
event1954 star_border 4.5
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In this Biblical epic, a brave Chaldean rebel takes on his evil nemesis, a cruel Assyrian king. En route to his fateful meeting, the rebel hides in the humble hut of a luscious peasant girl.
I 4 moschettieri
Director
event1963 star_border 6.5
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4 con men take the place of the real musketeers and manage to steal the Queen's necklace but then give it back to her, moved by her tears.
One Night with You
Theatre Play
event1948 star_border 6.5
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Two strangers meet when they both miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of 'It Happened One Night'.
Ursus in the Valley of the Lions
Director
event1961 star_border 5.5
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Bodybuilder Ed Fury stars as the legendary Ursus in this above-average sword-and-sandal adventure from veteran director Carlo Campogalliani. The plot concerns Ursus' attempts to rescue his kidnapped fiancee, aided by a pretty blind slave girl. Now an evil queen, Ursus' former love throws him into a gladiatorial arena with a bull, which manages to smack the slave girl in the head and restore her eyesight before Ursus defeats it and his enemies. The bullfight is particularly well-staged, and this exciting spectacle may be the highlight of Fury's erratic screen career. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
You, Your Mother, and Me
Director
event1958 star_border 6.7
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In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well.
Hannibal
Director
event1959 star_border 5.5
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A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.
The Four Monks
Director
event1962 star_border 6
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Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent
The Mighty Crusaders
Director
event1957 star_border 5
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The Mighty Crusaders (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) is a 1957 film about the First Crusade, based on the 16th-century Italian poem Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso. This film was directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.
If I Was Honest
Screenplay
event1942 star_border 8
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The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
Amore
Screenplay
event1936
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Venice Film Festival 1935
Albergo Luna, camera 34
Director
event1946
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A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with her old and sick mother. She is forced to sell everything she owns, while she is looking for a job as a singer. One night, tired and frustrated, she meets a man who invites her out for a drink. She accepts the invitation, stunned by the bunch of banknotes in his wallet. The man takes her to his room at the hotel Luna and seduces her. Before leaving, she robs him of his money and then walks hastily home, but in the meantime her mother has died. She meets a young maestro, who wants her to sing his songs. She seems to begin a happy, though hard, life together with the young maestro who wishes to marry her. The wicked man suddenly reappears and menaces to reveal their old encounter and that she is a thief, but he is later killed. The unfortunate lady is suspected of the crime, but at the end she is cleared of it and she can happily marry her maestro
Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!
Director
event1958 star_border 6
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A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.
Your Money or Your Life
Director
event1932
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Daniele, a stockbroker, learns that he has lost a large sum entrusted to him by his friend Giovanni Bensi and he does not have the nerve to tell it in person, so he writes a letter to his friend, telling him that he may collect his life insurance, as he is going to commit suicide - but he can not tell, because he will find a way to make it appear as a misfortune. The insurance policy is valid until midnight, but does not cover suicide.
Frutto Acerbo
Director
event1934
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An actress pretends to be a thirteen-year-old girl so as to make her widowed mother seem younger in the eyes of a suitor. She too falls in love and the film ends with a double wedding.
Orient Express
Director
event1954 star_border 7
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On December 24th the Orient Express gets snowbound near a little mountain village and its passengers are forced to spend some time there, mingling with the local people, upsetting their usually monotonous daily lives.
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
Director
event1945
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Believed dead, a husband poses as his own brother, to cash in on an insurance policy.But when his former boss,a rich man, asks the so called brother for help in wooing the widow, the new fortune from the insurance loses some of its appeal.
The Sword and the Cross
Director
event1958 star_border 2
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Mary Magdalene, a notorious harlot, must choose between her lascivious lifestyle and the love and affection of her decent-minded brother.
Una bruna indiavolata!
Director
event1951 star_border 6
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Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
La vita è bella
Director
event1943 star_border 8
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Count Alberto has lost his wealth at the gaming table, he wants to commit suicide but is stopped by a doctor who offers him an exchange, a week of life with how much money he wants and then be a guinea pig for a new drug (and maybe die).
Una famiglia impossibile
Director
event1940
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A wealthy young woman falls in love with a radio singer without ever having seen him. She forces her strange family (forgetful father, mother with ideas of grandeur, three sisters with a passion for singing and another who takes care of abandoned children) to go to the EIAR headquarters to be able to meet him.
La scuola dei timidi
Director
event1941
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Alberto, who has a beautiful voice but is afraid to sing in public, and the shy Anna, daughter of a very rich shoe manufacturer, take "lessons of courage" in a school for the shy and end up falling in love. Their shyness doesn't seem to heal but due to a misunderstanding Alberto becomes terribly jealous, deciding to face the girl first and then the public who will give him an enthusiastic success.
The Prisoner of Santa Cruz
Director
event1941
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A sea captain forbids his daughter to marry the man whose father he had killed many years before.
Due cuori sotto sequestro
Director
event1941
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An Italian comedy released in 1941.
Music on the Run
Director
event1943
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An Italian comedy from 1943.
Corporal of the day
Director
event1958 star_border 6.7
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A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.
The Maids
Director
event1959 star_border 7
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Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail. Some other maids organize a search party for the real thief who seems to be a moustached youth who continually sings a popular song.
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