

The biographical story of Puccini spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including an attractive, beautiful singer whom he drops for a small town girl, and a servant girl who commits suicide over him.
Directed by Carmine Gallone, Luigi Rovere
User score
3 votes
Released
April 29, 1953
1h 59m
Italian

Gabriele Ferzetti
Giacomo Puccini

Märta Torén
Elvira Puccini

Nadia Gray
Cristina Vernini

Paolo Stoppa
Giocondo

Myriam Bru
Delia

Sergio Tofano
Giulio Ricordi

Mimo Billi
Fanelli

Jacques Famery
Antonio Puccini

Gino Sinimberghi
tenore

Nelly Corradi
soprano

Silvio Bagolini
Gianni

Carlo Duse
Arrigo Boito

Piero Palermini
Ferdinando Fontana

René Clermont
Luigi Illica
Oscar Andriani
Giuseppe Giacosa
Enrico Urbini

Alessandro Fersen
padre di Delia

Mario Feliciani
Vittorina Benvenuti
Renato Chiantoni