Lasciate ogni speranza explained

Lasciate ogni speranza
Director:	Gennaro Righelli
Screenplay:	Riccardo Freda Camillo Mariani dell'Aguillara Edoardo Antonelli
Starring:	Antonio Gandusio María Denis Rosina Anselmi
Music:	Cesare A. Bixio
Cinematography:	Carlo Montuori
Studio:	Juventus Film
Distributor:	Juventus Film
Runtime:	84 minutes
Country:	Italy

Lasciate ogni speranza is a 1937 Italian comedy film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Antonio Gandusio, María Denis and Rosina Anselmi.

Cast

• Antonio Gandusio as Pasquale Grifone
• María Denis as Gina Grifone
• Rosina Anselmi as Filomena Grifone
• Giorgio De Rege as Giovanni
• Guido De Rege as Arturo
• Elli Parvo as Gemma
• Maria Dominiani as Assunta
• Mario Siletti as Jack Hilton
  • • • Angelo Bizzari Mario Colli Rocco D'Assunta Walter Grant
• Edwige Masing
  • Giulio Mostocotto Luigi Pellegrini
• Edoardo Toniolo

Production

Raffaele Colamonici hired Riccardo Freda as the screenwriter for the film, adapting the play L'agonia di Schizzo by Athos Setti. Freda would later dismiss the film and his other works of the era as "small comedies without any importance" Freda stated he wrote the film with his friend Edoardo Antonelli.

Release

Lasciate ogni speranza was released in October 1937.

References

Bibliography

• Book: Curti , Roberto . Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker . . 978-1476628387 . 2017 .
• Book: Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. 1999.