
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
Cast

Fosco Giachetti
Giuseppe Verdi

Gaby Morlay
Giuseppina Strepponi

Germana Paolieri
Margherita Barezzi

Camillo Pilotto
Antonio Barezzi

Cesco Baseggio
Papà Verdi

Maria Jacobini
Luigia Uttini, madre di Verdi
Maria Cebotari
Teresina Stolz
Febo Mari
Marelli, il direttore della Scala di Milano

Carlo Duse
Temistocle Solera
Eugenio Duse
L'impressario Massini

Enrico Glori
Il maestro Mariani
Clara Padoa
La contessa Maffei

Achille Majeroni
Il maestro Basili

Carlo Tamberlani
Demalde

Augusto Di Giovanni
Antonio Ghislanzoni

Gustavo Serena
Salvatore Cammarano

Guido Celano
Francesco Maria Piave

Lamberto Picasso
Gaetano Donizzetti

Pierre Brasseur
Alexandre Dumas figlio

Gabriel Gabrio
Honoré De Balzac

Beniamino Gigli
Il tenore Mirate

Henri Rollan
Victor Hugo
Crew

Carmine Gallone
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Lucio D'Ambra
Screenplay
Oswald Hafenrichter
Editor
Massimo Terzano
Director of Photography
Ivo Illuminati
Assistant Director
Emanuele Caracciolo
Assistant Director
Guido Fiorini
Production Design
Camillo Parravicini
Production Design
Titina Rota
Costume Design
Ettore Corsi
Art Direction
Luigi Petricca
Art Direction
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