Movie: Casta diva

Top 8 Billed Cast

Mártha Eggerth
Mártha Eggerth

Maddelena Fumarol

Sandro Palmieri
Sandro Palmieri

Vincenzo Bellini

Gualtiero Tumiati
Gualtiero Tumiati

Niccolò Paganini

Lamberto Picasso
Lamberto Picasso

Fumaroli

Achille Majeroni
Achille Majeroni

Gioacchino Rossini

Lina Marengo
Lina Marengo

a guest

Giulio Donadio
Giulio Donadio

Felice Romani

Ennio Cerlesi
Ennio Cerlesi

Ernesto Toti

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    Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here played by American actor Phillips Holmes. Paying but scant attention the facts, the film concentrates on Bellini's colorful love life. Evidently the film went through several rewriting processes, as witness the curious performances of Donald Calthrop and Arthur Margetson, whose characters do complete about-faces halfway through the story. Amidst so many British accents, Martha Eggerth's Polish intonations seem out of place, but she photographs beautifully and sings quite well. Casta Diva was attractively filmed on location in Naples. Not to be confused with the 1954 remake (by Gallone himself) or to the English language version "The Divine Spark" (also directed by Gallone and starred by Eggerth).

  • Release Date

    1935-06-13

  • Average

    5.8

  • Rating:

    2.9 starts
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  • Languages:

    Italiano
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