Guarany (1948)

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Guarany is a 1950 Italian film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring António Vilar, Mariella Lotti and Gianna Maria Canale.

Production

In this period of Italian film history, the opera film was popular as audiences were desiring biopics of Italy's most famous composers. Italian film historian and critic Roberto Curti commented that "the lives of Verdi, Rossini, and Bellini offered not only entertainment, but also a reminder of the country's past glory as a popular antidote to the misery and squalor unearthed by Neorealism." Director Riccardo Freda was set-up with the subject of…

The film was a production by Universalia Film, a Catholic-oriented production company started in 1946. According to Piero Regnoli, who was the company's vice artistic manager at the time, Universalia had "about one billion lire at disposal-cash.

Filming began on June 11, 1948 in Rome and after one week, the crew moved to Brazil to shoot on location there.

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