Movie · 1954
House of Ricordi
Released 1 December 1954 110 min History / Drama / Music More from 1954 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Gustavo Serena
as Il direttore di scena
Giuseppe Porelli
as Carlotti (uncredited)
Julien Carette
as Felix - l'oste
Antoine Balpêtré
as Dottor Fleury (uncredited)
Fosco Giachetti
as Giuseppe Verdi
Paolo Stoppa
as Giovanni Ricordi
Memmo Carotenuto
as Stuccatore
Roldano Lupi
as Domenico Barbaja
Elisa Cegani
as Giuseppina Strepponi
Fausto Tozzi
as Arrigo Boito
Micheline Presle
as Virginia Marchi
Nadia Gray
as Giulia Grisi
Renzo Giovampietro
as Tito Ricordi
Marcello Mastroianni
as Gaetano Donizetti
Gabriele Ferzetti
as Giacomo Puccini
Danièle Delorme
as Maria
Roland Alexandre
as Gioacchino Rossini
Maurice Ronet
as Vincenzo Bellini
Vira Silenti
as Marietta Ricordi
Myriam Bru
as Luisa Lewis
Danik Patisson
as (uncredited)
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58years between the oldest and youngest billed
73Gustavo Serena — oldest on the call sheet
15Danik Patisson — youngest billed
38average age of the credited cast