The Innkeeper

{{short description|1944 Italian historical comedy film}} {{Infobox film | name = The Innkeeper | image =File:The Innkeeper.jpg | caption =Luisa Ferida and Mario Pisu | director = [[Luigi Chiarini]] | producer = | writer = [[Carlo Goldoni]] (play) [[Umberto Barbaro]] [[Francesco Pasinetti]] Luigi Chiarini | starring = [[Luisa Ferida]] [[Armando Falconi]] [[Osvaldo Valenti]] [[Camillo Pilotto]] | music = [[Achille Longo]] | cinematography = [[Carlo Nebiolo]] | editing = [[Maria Rosada]] | studio = [[Società Italiana Cines]] | distributor = [[Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche|ENIC]] | released = {{Film date|1944|12|23|df=yes}} | runtime = 71 minutes | country = Italy | language = [[Italian language|Italian]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Innkeeper''''' (Italian: '''''La locandiera''''' also known as '''''Mirandolina''''') is a 1944 Italian [[historical film|historical]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Luigi Chiarini]] and starring [[Luisa Ferida]], [[Armando Falconi]] and [[Osvaldo Valenti]].<ref>Reich & Garafalo p.28</ref> The film is an adaptation of [[Carlo Goldoni]]'s 1753 play ''[[The Mistress of the Inn]]'', one of a number of times the work has been turned into films. It belongs to the movies of the [[calligrafismo]] style.

==Production== The film was originally shot in [[Rome]]. During the last stages of completion, Mussolini was overthrown. The final editing was done in [[Venice]], the film capital of the [[Italian Social Republic]], but without the presence of Chiarini. Two of its stars Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti were later executed by [[Italian resistance movement|Italian Partisans]] for collaboration with the Fascist leadership.

==Cast== * [[Luisa Ferida]] as Mirandolina * [[Armando Falconi]] as Il marchese di Forlimpopoli * [[Osvaldo Valenti]] as Il cavaliere di Ripafratta * [[Camillo Pilotto]] as Il conte di Albafiorita * [[Elsa De Giorgi]] as Ortensia, l'attrice * [[Paola Borboni]] as Dejanira, l'attrice * [[Olga Solbelli]] as La contessa di Albafiorita * [[Mario Pisu]] as Fabrizio * [[Carlo Micheluzzi]] as Orazio, il capocomico * [[Emilio Baldanello]] as Brighella * [[Ernesto Zanon]] as Arlecchino * [[Mario Siletti]] as Pandolfo, il servo di Ripafratta * [[Pina Piovani]] as Lucrezia, la cameriera della locanda * [[Andrea Volo]] as Florindo * [[Clara Vaschetti]] as La domestica delle attrici * [[Gino Cervi]] as Il poeta * [[Igilda Bertina]] * [[Giulia Toscani]] * [[Liliana Ruffo]] * [[Saro Urzì]]

== References == <references/>

== Bibliography == * Brunetta, Gian Piero. ''The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century''. Princeton University Press, 2009. * Moliterno, Gino. ''The A to Z of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. * Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. ''Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943''. Indiana University Press, 2002. == External links == * {{IMDb title|0036117}}

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