An Adventure of Salvator Rosa
An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (Italian: Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa) is a 1939 Italian historical adventure film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida and Rina Morelli. It is set in seventeenth century Naples, then occupied by Spain, where a famous artist celebrated for his paintings of the rich leads a double life as a secret defender of the poor and oppressed.
Plot
Kingdom of Naples, 17th century. Spanish oppression becomes increasingly bloody after the popular uprising led by Masaniello. The famous painter Salvator Rosa is also a masked hero who fights against the arrogance and oppression that the nobles impose on the poorer classes: the notorious ‘Formica,’ a friend of the people, a skilled swordsman and a daring inventor of hoaxes against the viceroy of Naples and Count Lamberto, his adviser.
More details
| author | Alessandro Blasetti Corrado Pavolini Renato Castellani |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Naples |
| director | Alessandro Blasetti |
| editor | Mario Serandrei |
| genre | adventure historical |
| keywords | 17th century cunning end fence kingdom of naples list of viceroys of naples masaniello masked hero popular uprising salvator rosa uprise viceroy of naples |
| musicBy | Alessandro Cicognini |
| producer | Andrea Di Robilant Augusto Turati |
| productionCompany | Stella Film |
| publisher | Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche |