# The Innkeeper > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Innkeeper > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Innkeeper.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innkeeper > Source revision: 1341625496 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1944 Italian historical comedy film The Innkeeper Luisa Ferida and Mario Pisu Directed by Luigi Chiarini Written by Carlo Goldoni (play) Umberto Barbaro Francesco Pasinetti Luigi Chiarini Starring Luisa Ferida Armando Falconi Osvaldo Valenti Camillo Pilotto Cinematography Carlo Nebiolo Edited by Maria Rosada Music by Achille Longo Production company Società Italiana Cines Distributed by ENIC Release date 23 December 1944 (1944-12-23) Running time 71 minutes Country Italy Language Italian ***The Innkeeper*** (Italian: ***La locandiera*** also known as ***Mirandolina***) is a 1944 Italian [historical](/source/Historical_film) [comedy film](/source/Comedy_film) directed by [Luigi Chiarini](/source/Luigi_Chiarini) and starring [Luisa Ferida](/source/Luisa_Ferida), [Armando Falconi](/source/Armando_Falconi) and [Osvaldo Valenti](/source/Osvaldo_Valenti).[1] The film is an adaptation of [Carlo Goldoni](/source/Carlo_Goldoni)'s 1753 play *[The Mistress of the Inn](/source/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](/source/Calligrafismo) style. ## Production The film was originally shot in [Rome](/source/Rome). During the last stages of completion, Mussolini was overthrown. The final editing was done in [Venice](/source/Venice), the film capital of the [Italian Social Republic](/source/Italian_Social_Republic), but without the presence of Chiarini. Two of its stars Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti were later executed by [Italian Partisans](/source/Italian_resistance_movement) for collaboration with the Fascist leadership. ## Cast - [Luisa Ferida](/source/Luisa_Ferida) as Mirandolina - [Armando Falconi](/source/Armando_Falconi) as Il marchese di Forlimpopoli - [Osvaldo Valenti](/source/Osvaldo_Valenti) as Il cavaliere di Ripafratta - [Camillo Pilotto](/source/Camillo_Pilotto) as Il conte di Albafiorita - [Elsa De Giorgi](/source/Elsa_De_Giorgi) as Ortensia, l'attrice - [Paola Borboni](/source/Paola_Borboni) as Dejanira, l'attrice - [Olga Solbelli](/source/Olga_Solbelli) as La contessa di Albafiorita - [Mario Pisu](/source/Mario_Pisu) as Fabrizio - [Carlo Micheluzzi](/source/Carlo_Micheluzzi) as Orazio, il capocomico - [Emilio Baldanello](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emilio_Baldanello&action=edit&redlink=1) as Brighella - [Ernesto Zanon](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernesto_Zanon&action=edit&redlink=1) as Arlecchino - [Mario Siletti](/source/Mario_Siletti) as Pandolfo, il servo di Ripafratta - [Pina Piovani](/source/Pina_Piovani) as Lucrezia, la cameriera della locanda - [Andrea Volo](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrea_Volo&action=edit&redlink=1) as Florindo - [Clara Vaschetti](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clara_Vaschetti&action=edit&redlink=1) as La domestica delle attrici - [Gino Cervi](/source/Gino_Cervi) as Il poeta - [Igilda Bertina](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Igilda_Bertina&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Giulia Toscani](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giulia_Toscani&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Liliana Ruffo](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liliana_Ruffo&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Saro Urzì](/source/Saro_Urz%C3%AC) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Reich & Garafalo p.28 ## 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 - [*The Innkeeper*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036117/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e The films of Luigi Chiarini Street of the Five Moons (1942) Sleeping Beauty (1942) The Innkeeper (1944) Last Love (1947) Pact with the Devil (1950) v t e The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni Films The Innkeeper (1944) La locandiera (1980) Miranda (1985) Operas Bianca (1918) Mirandolina (1959) This article related to an Italian comedy film of the 1940s is a stub. 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