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Films shot in and near the city of Viterbo

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Title: La Vita è Bella
Country and Year of Production: Italy 1998
Director: Roberto Begnini
Actors: Roberto Begnini, Nicoletta Braschi
Location: Old train station of Ronciglione

Title: La Sindrome di Stendhal
Country and Year of Production: Italy 1996
Director: Dario Argento
Actors: Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini, Graziella Magherini
Location: Loggia of the Papal Palace and Piazza of the Plebscito for the reconstruction of the Etruscan Museum.

Title: Le Comiche 2
Country and Year of Production: Italy 1991
Director: Neri Parenti
Film Script: Alessandro Bencivenni, Piero De Brenardi, Neri Parenti, Domenico Saverni
Actors: Paolo Villaggiom Renato Pozzetto, Roberto Della Casa, Antonio Allocca,
Location: Lake Vico

Title: L'Avaro
Country and Year of Production: Italy 1990
Director: Tonino Cervi
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Laura antonelli, Valerie Allain, Franco Angrisano, Miguel Bosè, Lucia Bosè, Carlo Croccolo, Nicola Farron, Franco Interlenghi, Christopher Lee
Location: Bassano Romano

Title: Yado
Original Title: Red Sonja
Country and Year of Production: USA 1985
Director: Richard Fleischer
Film Script: Clive Exton, Gorge MacDonald Fraser
Actors: Arnold Schwarznegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman, Paul Smith, , Ernie Reyes jr., Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Janet Agren
Location: the woods of Soriano in Cimino as background for the duel between Yado and Red Sonja.

Title: Girando Othello
Original Title: Filming Othello
Country and Year of Production: West Germany 1978
Director: Orson Wells
Film Script: Orson Wells
Actors: Orson Welles, Hilton Edwards, Michael MacLiammoir, Robert Coote
Location: Farnese Palace in Caprarpla (Viterbo)

Title: Amici Miei
Country and Year of Production: Italy 1975
Director: Mario Monicelli
Film Script: Pietro Germi, Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Tullio Pinelli
Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Duilio Del Prete, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret, Adolfo Celi
Location: Borough of Calcata Vecchia (Viterbo)

Title: Il Decameron
Country and Year of Production: Italy/ France/ West Germany 1971
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Film Script: Pier Paolo Pasolini, tratto da Decameron di Giovanni Boccaccio
Actors: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic, Angela Luce, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vincenzo Amato, Elisabetta Vito Genovese
Location: Borough of Calcata Vecchia (Viterbo)

Title: L'Armata Brancaleone
Country and Year of Production: Italy 1966
Director: Mario Monicelli
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Carlo Pisacane, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli, Gian Maria Volonté, Enrico Maria Salerno, Maria Grazia Buccella
Location: Lake Vico - Vitrochiano- Countryside of Nepi near Mount Soratte

Title: Un giorno da Leoni
Country and Year of Production: Italy 1961
Director: Nanni Loy
Actors: Renato Salvatori, Carla Gravina, Tomas Milian, Nino Castelnuovo, Saro Urzì, Romolo Valli, Corrado Pani, Franco Bucceri, Bruno Scipioni, Anna-Maria Ferrero, Valeria Moriconi
Location: Bridge on Rio Vicano and Ronciglione

Title: Il Vigile
Country and Year of Production: Italy 1960
Director: Luigi Zampa
Film Script: Ugo Guerra, Rodolfo Sonego
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Sylva Koscina, Marisa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica, Mario Riva, Nando Bruno, Mara Berni, Riccardo Garrone, Lia Zoppelli
Location: Gramsci square in Viterbo and the Borough of Bagnaia

Title: Lo Scapolo
Country and Year of Production: Italy 1955
Director: Pietrangeli
Actors: Alberto Sordi
Location: Historical center of Ronciglione

Title: I Vitelloni
Country and Year of Production: Italy 1953
Director: Federico Fellini
Film Script: Federico Fellini and Ennio Flaiano
Actors: Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Riccardo Fellini, Paola Borbone
Location: Piazza of Erbe in Viterbo

Television Films shot in and near the city of Viterbo

Title: Gino Bartali the Intramontabile
Country and Year of Production: Italy 2005
Actors: Pier Francesco Favini
Location: Old train station of Romciglione

Title: Rita da Cascia
Country and Year of Production: Italy 2004
Director: Maura Nucciatelli and Elisabetta Lodoli
Actors: Vittoria Belvedere, Adriano Pappalardo, Lina Sastri, Sidney Rome
Notes: Fiction film produced by Channel 5 shown in 2 episodes.
Location: Medieval quarters and pizza of San Pellegrino representing typical Viterbo buildings from the 11th and 12th centuries transformed into a Renaissance period of Cascia for filming proposes.
Regia Hall of the Priors Palace, hall of representatives of the Municipal of Viterbo became the Palace of Cicchi in Cascia. The courtyard of the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, dating back to the 12th century, is transformed into the Piazza of Mercato of Cascia. The cloister of Santa Maria of the Quercia is transformed into that of the monastery Agostiniano of the Santa.

Title: Don Bosco
Country and Year of Production: Italy 2003
Director: Lodovico Gasparini
Actors: Flavio Insinna, Lina Sastri, Alessandra Martinez, Arnaldo Ninchi
Location: The sanctuary of Santa Maria of the Quercia, renaissance structure built between 1470 and 1525 is transformed into the Torin boarding school where Don Bosco began his work.
Regia Hall of the Priors Palace, hall of representatives of the Municipal of Viterbo is transformed into the Hall for hearings of the Holy Father.

Title: Papa Giovanni
Country and Year of Production: Italy 2002
Director: Giorgio Capitani
Actors: Massimo Ghini, Edward Asner, Anna Valle, Tosca D'Aquino, Franco Interlenghi, Sidney Rome, Sergio Fiorentini
Location: Villa Lante and Bagnaia
Title: Papa Giovanni
Country and Year of Production: Italy 2002
Director: Giorgio Capitani
Actors: Gigi Proietti, Stefania Sandrelli, Sergio Fiorentini, Veronica Pivetti, Maurizio Aiello, Francesca Rinaldi, Mattia Sbragia
Notes: Five television series transmitted by the RAI ( 1996.1998, 2001, 2003, 2005)
Location: Viterbo

Title: Orlando Furioso
Country and Year of Production: Italy 1974
Director: Luca Ronconi
Film Script: Edoardo Sanquineti
Actors: Vittorio Sanipoli, Enzo Garinei, Ottavia Piccolo, Carlo Montanaro, Mariangela Melato, Luigi Diberti, Massimo Foschi, Michele Placido, Edmonda Aldini, Paola Gassman, Marilù Tolo.
Notes: Film for television lasting 293 minutes transmitted by the RAI in five parts. Featuring the story by Ludovico Ariosto, derived from the celebrated show put on by Ronconi in 1969 at the Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto (Festival of the Two Worlds of Spoleto).
Location: The characters of this film occupy the impressive environment of Farnese Palace of Caprarola (Viterbo) where frescoed halls, stairways and courtyards are transformed into an armament complex with surprising stagecrafting.

Title: Vita di Dante
Country and Year of Production: Italy 1965
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi
Actors: Giorgio Albertazzi, Ileana Ghione, Mario Feliciani, Claudio Gora, Renzo Palmer, Luigi Vannucchi, Renzo Montagnani, Loretta Goggi, Andrea Checchi, Stefano Satta Flores.
Notes: Film for television lasting transmitted by the RAI in three parts.
Location: This film for TV transforms Viterbo into the city of Florence, 1300's; the house of the Alessandri's in the San Pellegrino quarters becomes the balcony of Beatrice; the Papal Palace hosts the scene of the discussions and duels between Dante and Guido Cavalcanti, while the scene of Beatrice's funeral procession passes down Via delle Caiole.