Treno popolare

His 1933 debut, following some years as a journalist and then script boy, was Treno popolare, an early sound lark about several Roman petit bourgeois on a day trip to the country that was influenced by the German proto-neorealist silent picture People on Sunday (1930). Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota.

Direction

Raffaello Matarazzo

Screenplay

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Gastone Bossio

Raffaello Matarazzo

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Gino Mazzucchi