Product Details

• Actors: Gabriele Ferzetti, Märta Torén, Nadia Gray, Paolo Stoppa, Myriam Bru
• Directors: Carmine Gallone
• Writers: Carmine Gallone, Aldo Bizzarri, Glauco Pellegrini, Leonardo Benvenuti
• Producers: Angelo Rizzoli, Antonio Muso, Luigi Rovere
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: Italian
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: February 20, 2007
• Run Time: 119 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000KGH052
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #186,258 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Puccini" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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PUCCINI - DVD Movie

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars PUCCINI now until later, June 19, 2008

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Victor Danemore "MOVIE MAINEAC" (Midcoast Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puccini (DVD)

This is an entertaining biography of the Italian libertine who gave us the great operas LA BOHEME, MADAMA BUTTERFLY, TOSCA and TURANDOT. Gabriele Ferzetti is competent as Giacomo Ferzetti. The stunning Swede Märta Torén, who left the USA after tiring of being type cast as a woman of mystery, plays the long-suffering wife of the composer and actually ages in this movie. (In real life, she died suddenly at age 31.) Nadia Gray portrays one of Puccini's lovers. The voices of Beniamino Gigli and other noted Italian opera singers of the era are heard throughout. Till a studio decides to produce a film with more depth and scope on this great Italian composer, like Columbia's SONG WITHOUT END on Franz Liszt, this French-Italian production will have to do.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BADLY- VERY BADLY DUBBED FILM!, November 16, 2009

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Joseph G. Mac Pherson (Studio City (Los Angeles), CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Puccini (DVD)

I was expecting Post War Italian Cinema grandeur. I was hoping to see a gorgeous Technicolor production, with the sweep and passion of Puccini's music. Imagine my surprise and great dismay, to discover that every actor in this definitely Italian Film, was speaking American English! Badly dubbed English! How bad? You'd swear that microphones were set up on sound stages in the Bronx, or Brooklyn, Queens or New Jersey. I have nothing against those places, but honestly, why couldn't we have heard the original Italian actor's voices?? I was frantic to find a way to hear the film in Italian, thinking there might be subtitles. No such luck.
I thought, "Is the dubbing really that irritating? Can I give it another try?" So I did. Less than 20 minutes later I was done. Had I known in advance that the movie is dubbed, I never would have purchased it. I'm doing the rest of you a favor in letting you know. Maybe some day Kino or someone else will relaese it properly!

1.0 out of 5 stars Current DVD mastering plays reels out of sequence; makes hash of story., January 1, 2011

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Mike Simonsen (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puccini (Amazon Instant Video)

Abysmal mastering on the DVD I saw places the reels way out of order. The only thing to do is to fast forward to the performance sequences and ignore the drama completely. Incoherent is the nice word. Shame on the publisher.