Luchino Visconti at home via Salaria 366, Rome

Lucia Bosè, Luchino Visconti 1949

La terra trema (1948) Luchino Visconti, and one of the Giammona sisters, Mostra di Venezia 1948

Luchino Visconti at home, 1948

18 October 1945, Teatro Eliseo, Roma. Antigone by Jean Anouilh. Company Rina Morelli-Paolo Stoppa. Director Luchino Visconti.

Olga Villi, Giorgio De Lullo, foto Barzacchi

Visconti’s productions of A porte chiuse (No Exit) by Jean Paul Sartre, and Antigone by Jean Anouilh, open in Rome Teatro Eliseo 18 October.

Company Rina Morelli-Paolo Stoppa

October 1945. Visconti co-writes with Michelangelo Antonioni, Guido Piovene, Antonio Pietrangeli a script for The Trial of Maria Tarnowska. Isa Miranda and Vittorio Gassman leading roles. 

Vittorio Gassman 1945, photo Invernizzi.

Visconti’s production Jean Cocteau’s La macchina da scrivere (The Typewriter) opens in Rome, Teatro Eliseo, 2 October 1945. Company Laura Adani - Ernesto Calindri - Tino Carraro - Vittorio Gassman

23 March 1945, Teatro Quirino, Rome. Visconti’s production of Hemingway’s Quinta Colonna (The Fifth Colum).

Carlo Ninchi, Olga Villi, foto Barzacchi. 

30 January 1945, Teatro Eliseo, Rome. Visconti debuts as theater director with Jean Cocteau’s 1938 Parenti terribili (Les parents terribles). 

Gino Cervi, Andreina Pagnani, photo Barzacchi.