Before Him All Rome Trembled

Before Him All Rome Trembled (Italian: Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma) is a 1946 Italian musical war melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Anna Magnani, Tito Gobbi and Hans Hinrich. Ada and Marco are a pair of opera singers, who moonlight working for the Italian resistance at the time of the German occupation of Rome during the Second World War. They are sheltering a British soldier with whom they make contact with the advancing Allied forces. Sylistically the film is a hybrid between filmed performances of opera, and a neorealistic resistance melodrama.

The title refers to Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, which is performed during the film.

Cast

 * Anna Magnani as Ada
 * Tito Gobbi as Marco
 * Hans Hinrich as German Officer
 * Gino Sinimberghi as Frank, the British soldier
 * Guido Notari as Doctor
 * Tino Scotti as Mechanic
 * Guglielmo Sinaz as Stagehand
 * Joop van Hulzen as Webb
 * Giuseppe Varni as Stagehand
 * Carlo Duse as Police Officer
 * Edda Albertini as Lena
 * Heinrich Bode as German Soldier
 * Antonio Crast
 * Giulio Neri
 * Ave Ninchi