Castles in the Air (1939 film)
1939 film
- Franz Karl Franchy [de] (novel)
- Renato Castellani
- Alessandro De Stefani
- Mario Soldati
- Franz Tanzler
- Augusto Genina
- Lilian Harvey
- Vittorio De Sica
- Otto Treßler
- Hilde von Stolz
Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Fernando Tropea
Production
company
company
Astra Film
UFA (Germany)
Release date
- 19 March 1939 (1939-03-19)
Running time
Castles in the Air (Italian: Castelli in aria) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Lilian Harvey, Vittorio De Sica and Otto Treßler.[1] It was made at Cinecittà in Rome, as part of a co-production with Germany. A separate German-language version was also released. It is based on a novel by Franz Karl Franchy [de].
Synopsis
A wardrobe mistress at a Vienna theatre wins a competition, receiving as her prize a luxury tour round Italy. On the train she meets an impoverished young Italian who pretends to be a prince.
Partial cast
- Lilian Harvey as Annie Wagner detta 'Mimì'
- Vittorio De Sica as Riccardo Pietramola
- Otto Treßler as Forster
- Hilde von Stolz as La cantante
- Fritz Odemar as Walter
- Carla Sveva as La guardarobiera
- Umberto Sacripante as Il gondoliere
References
- ^ Moliterno p.80
Bibliography
- Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
- Castles in the Air at IMDb
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The films of Augusto Genina
- Goodbye Youth (1918)
- The Prince of the Impossible (1918)
- The Beautiful Wife (1924)
- The Hearth Turned Off (1925)
- The Last Lord (1926)
- Goodbye Youth (1927)
- The Prisoners of Shanghai (1927)
- The Story of a Little Parisian (1928)
- Scampolo (1928)
- Love's Masquerade (1928)
- Latin Quarter (1929)
- Miss Europe (1930)
- The Darling of Paris (1931)
- The Lovers of Midnight (1931)
- The Woman Dressed As a Man (1932)
- We Are Not Children (1934)
- Forget Me Not (1935)
- The White Squadron (1936)
- Flowers from Nice (1936)
- The Phantom Gondola (1936)
- The Kiss of Fire (1937)
- Woman's Love—Woman's Suffering (1937)
- Castles in the Air (1939)
- The Siege of the Alcazar (1940)
- Bengasi (1942)
- Heaven over the Marshes (1949)
- Devotion (1950)
- Three Forbidden Stories (1952)
- Maddalena (1954)
- Frou-Frou (1955)
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