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Otto mesi in due ore ossia Gli esiliati in Siberia (Eight Months in Two Hours or The Exiles in Siberia) is an opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni.
The original story comes from the 1806 novel, Elisabeth, ou Les exilés de Sibérie (Elisabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia), written by Sophie Ristaud Cottin. Luigi Marchionni's subsequent play, La figlia dell’esiliato, ossia Otto mesi in due ore (The Daughter of the Exile, or Eight Months in Two Hours), first performed in Italy in 1820, was the more immediate basis for Gilardoni's libretto.
The opera has two later, substantially re-worked versions, Élisabeth ou la fille de l'exilé (Elisabeth, or the daughter of the exile), and Elisabetta, both of which received their first performances some 150 years after Donizetti's death.
The opera underwent many revisions and changes of title over the years, with a performance history nearly as convoluted as its plot. Its first version premiered with the title Otto mesi in due ore at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples on 13 May 1827, and was performed 50 times in its first season. In 1831, it was presented in Milan to only limited success as Gli esiliati in Siberia. In 1832, Donizetti revised the opera somewhat, adapting the original soprano role of Elisabetta for the popular Austro-Hungarian contralto, Caroline Ungher. He revised the opera further for its premiere in Livorno in 1833.
Actors: Alberto Meroni (director), Alberto Meroni (writer), Zeno Gabaglio (composer), Federico Caprara (actor), Flavio Sala (actor), Camila Koller (miscellaneous crew), Nicolò Tettamanti (editor), Camila Koller (miscellaneous crew), Diego Bernasconi (actor), Michael Betti (actor), Diego Bernasconi (writer), Giulia Fratini (costume designer), Simona Bernasconi (actress), Dimitri Rosi (miscellaneous crew), Francesca Bernasconi (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Alessio Biagioni (producer), Alessio Biagioni (director), Alessio Biagioni (producer), Alessio Biagioni (writer), Raffaele Totaro (actor), Raffaele Totaro (producer), Lorenzo Petrognani (composer), Carlotta Segoni (producer), Carlotta Segoni (actress), Alessandro Timpanaro (actor), Leonardo Monfardini (actor), Leonardo Monfardini (producer), Selene Moscardi (actress), Selene Moscardi (producer), Glenda Borchi (actress),
Genres: Horror, Short,Actors: Cinzia Mascoli (actress), Fulvio Falzarano (actor), Antonio Covatta (actor), Antonio Micciulli (editor), Antonio Micciulli (producer), Antonio Micciulli (writer), Antonio Micciulli (director), Andrea Dianetti (actor), Romina Carancini (actress), Chiara Stampacchia (actress), Cristiano Ciccone (composer),
Plot: A family. Father, mother and two children. Confined to the house in which they live. Outside, an unnatural fog, burning people alive with whom it comes into contact. No possibility for communication with the outside, only hypotheses about a possible cause of the phenomenon. In complete isolation, in lack of supplies, the sound of a glass breaking. Despite the thick mist outside, someone entered the house. Maybe not everybody die in the fog...
Keywords: abusive-relationship, allegory, assumed-dead, awakened-by-gunfire, barking-dog, bedroom, family-relationships, independent-film, killing-an-animal, male-nudityActors: Denis Lavant (actor), Jerzy Stuhr (actor), Giorgio Colangeli (actor), Robinson Stévenin (actor), Fabrizio Gifuni (actor), Guido Chiesa (director), Carlo Cecchi (actor), Guido Chiesa (writer), Guido Chiesa (writer), Luca Gasparini (editor), Djemel Barek (actor), Fadila Belkebla (actress), Viviana Ronzitti (miscellaneous crew), Lorenzo Moneta (miscellaneous crew), Alberto Masi (editor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,Actors: Sabrina Ferilli (actress), Fausto Brizzi (writer), Nicoletta Ercole (costume designer), Neri Parenti (writer), Claudio Bisio (actor), Neri Parenti (director), Aurelio De Laurentiis (producer), Maurizio Amati (producer), Christian De Sica (actor), Massimo Ghini (actor), Wolfgang Meyer (actor), Robert Sciglimpaglia (actor), Marco Martani (writer), Betty Chin (miscellaneous crew), Luca Montanari (editor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Andrea Montuschi (actor), Mauro Farfaglia (actor), Max Ferro (writer), Eugenio Gradabosco (actor), Max Ferro (director), Giuseppe D'Amico (producer), Elisa Cassissa (actress), Diego Iannaccone (actor), Giuseppe Paladini (actor), Vittorio Borani (actor), Debora Milone (actress), Gianpiero Massimelli (producer), Lorenzo Cornaglia (actor), Michela Bruciapaglia (actress), Abiogenesi (composer),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Amos Kollek (writer), Anna Levine (actress), Amos Kollek (director), Linda Moran (producer), Rene Bastian (producer), Bill Dawes (actor), Mike Hodge (actor), Samantha Buck (actress), Christopher McCann (actor), Vernon Gravdal (actor), Michele Santopietro (actress), Matthew Powers (actor), Alison Gordy (composer), Jeffrey Marc Harkavy (editor), Osnat Shalev (actress),
Plot: The story of Fiona and her mother told in eight chapters. Fiona is abandoned at six months of age, raised in foster and adoptive homes, abused, and, still a teen, hustles on the streets of New York. We watch her use heroine, fall in love with other women, be pursued by men, engage in murderous violence, hide out in a crack house, and decide to leave the city. We see her mother, also a streetwalker and drug user, occasionally talk about her lost daughter. Fiona has a necklace she was clutching when a foundling. Will mother and daughter meet? Is there a silver lining?
Keywords: abandoned-baby, abandonment, adoption, adoptive-father-adopted-daughter-relationship, arrest, attempted-suicide, baby, bare-breasts, bare-butt, bathActors: Valeria Cavalli (actress), Roberto Missiroli (editor), Luigi Pistilli (actor), Claudio Botosso (actor), Antonella Attili (actress), Mario Missiroli (editor), Gerardo Fontana (actor), Gerardo Fontana (writer), Gerardo Fontana (director), Luca Santini (producer), Laura Iannetti (producer), Jean Hugues Roland (composer),
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Genres: Comedy,Actors: Aldo Silvani (actor), Mario Nascimbene (composer), Silvio Bagolini (actor), Vittorio Duse (actor), Enrico Gras (writer), Jone Morino (actress), Luisella Beghi (actress), Adriana Benetti (actress), Glauco Pellegrini (writer), Vittorio Ripamonti (actor), Anna Gobbi (costume designer), Emilio Cordero (director), Aldo De Franchi (actor), Vittorio Carpignano (editor), Vittorio Carpignano (director),
Genres: Drama,Come and take heed, be sworn by the death of Ella Speed,
Come and take heed, be sworn by the death of Ella Speed,
Now Ella Speed was downtown and she was having a lot of
fun,
And here's the deed Bill Martin done
Now Ella Speed was downtown and she was having a lot of
fun,
And here's the deed Bill Martin done
Oh Bill Martin he was tall and slender,
Better known as him being a bar tender
Oh Bill Martin he was tall and slender,
Better known as him being a bar tender
The deed that old Bill Martin done,
Was commit murder with a Colt 41,
The deed that old Bill Martin done,
Was commit murder with a Colt 41,
When folks downtown heard Ella Speed was dead,
Well, they were really red and red,
When folks downtown heard Ella Speed was dead,
Well, they were really red and red,
Come and take heed, be sworn by the death of Ella Speed,