Tonino has the potential to become a great opera singer, but he falls victim of an opportunist. His father, the miller, warns him about this woman. After taking a medicine Tonino looses his voice and, as expected, the woman abandons him…

This comedy was shot in Turin’s FERT studios and included some well-known names of Italian cinema and theatre (there is also the young Dino De Laurentiis). The film, recently rediscovered through Lorenzo Ventavoli’s research, has been kindly donated by the family that had handled its distribution, Girardi from Cuneo. Emanuele Caracciolo, the director, was born in Tripoli in 1912 and worked as stage decorator, set designer, assistant director, production manager, scenario writer and scriptwriter. During the first few months of the war he made this, his only film. He is the only man from the world of cinema amongst the martyrs of the Nazi massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine (24 March 1944).

Franco Prono – Associazione Maria Adriana Prolo