Vittorio Cottafavi Movies

An adaptation of Molière's play.

Television movie about Oliver Cromwell.

Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge is an Italian adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

The trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux.

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.

An adaptation of the Aeschylus play.

After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.

A scientist kills his rival with a perfect alibi and tries to get away with it.

In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small...

In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an...

Cottafavi's adaptation of the Greek tragedy for RAI.

An Italian historical melodrama

The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic...

Sci-fi film made for TV by Vittorio Cottafavi.

Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.

A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.