Titanus
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Company type | Production company |
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Founded | 1904 |
Founder | Gustavo Lombardo |
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Website | titanus |
Titanus (also called Titanus Distribuzione) is an Italian film production and distribution company, founded in 1904 by Gustavo Lombardo (1885–1951). The company's headquarters are located at 28 Via Sommacampagna, Rome and its studios on the Via Tiburtina, 13 km from the centre of Rome. The logo is a gold shield.
After the arrival of the French new wave films, Titanus launched a "youth operation", which gave young film artists a chance to create low-budget films with relative freedom.[1] This had approximately 100 first and second productions for Titanus made between 1960 and 1965.[1] This included films by new directors such as Ermanno Olmi, Elio Petri, Damiano Damiani and Lina Wertmuller.[1] Titanus closed down its production branch in 1964, but still is active. [2]
Selected films
[edit]- L'avvenire in agguato directed by Giulio Antamoro (1916)
- L'ombra directed by Mario Caserini (1917)
- Il piacere directed by Amleto Palermi (1918)
- Io ti uccido! directed by Giulio Antamoro (1919)
- Friquet directed by Gero Zambuto (1919)
- Vautrin directed by Alexandre des Varennes (1919)
- Il castello di bronzo directed by Emilio Ghione (1920)
- I figli di nessuno (1951)
- Il Cappotto (1952)
- Rome 11:00 (1952)
- Storms (1953)
- Pane, amore e fantasia (1953)
- Pane, amore e gelosia (1954)
- Siamo donne (1953)
- Il segno di Venere (1955)
- Il bidone (1955)
- Pane, amore e... (1955)
- Il Tetto (1956)
- Poveri ma belli (1957)
- Arrivederci Roma (1958)
- The Naked Maja (1958)
- Il magistrato (1959)
- The Law (1959)
- Estate violenta (1959)
- À double tour (1959)
- Plein soleil (1960)
- The Angel Wore Red (1960)
- Le Trou (1960)
- A Breath of Scandal (1960)
- Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960)
- Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1960)
- Il Posto (1961)
- La viaccia (1961)
- Girl with a Suitcase (1961)
- A cavallo della tigre (1961)
- Les Sept péchés capitaux (1962)
- Il giorno più corto (1962)
- Le quattro giornate di Napoli (1962)
- Family Diary (1962)
- I Sequestrati di Altona (The Condemned of Altona, 1962)
- Il Gattopardo (1963)
- Sodom and Gomorrah (1963)
- I Fidanzati (1963)
- The Tigers of Mompracem (1970)
- La prima notte di quiete (1972)
- Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad (1973)
- Help Me Dream (1981)
- Dagger Eyes (1983)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Nicoli 2016, p. 198.
- ^ Nicoli 2016, p. 202.
Footnotes
[edit]- Nicoli, Marina (2016). The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1317654377.