Apparition

About Apparition

Apparition is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Jean de Limur and starring Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti and Amedeo Nazzari. It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone.

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Apparition (Italian: Apparizione) is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Jean de Limur and starring Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti and Amedeo Nazzari. It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone.

Cast

Alida Valli as Andreina

Massimo Girotti as Franco

Amedeo Nazzari as Amedeo Nazzari

Paolo Stoppa as Alberto

Andreina Pagnani as Zia Ortensia

Olga Solbelli as Zia Lavinia

Fioretta Dolfi as Orietta

Dora Menichelli as Zia Matilde

Silvio Bagolini as Il fotografo

Ada Colangeli as Geltrude

Liana Del Balzo as Susanna, la governante

Riccardo Fellini as Un amico di Franco

Leo Garavaglia as Antonio, segretario di Nazzari

Roberto Mauri as Un amico di Andreina

Franco Pesce as L'ometto che fa benzina

Adriana Serra as Un'amica di Andreina

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Notable quotes

“Accounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of my own experience.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
“Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”
— Arthur C. Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) "Foreword"
“Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?”
— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book II, line 681
“Ghosts are not the souls of the dead, but the souls of people written out of history when history changes.”
— Alastair Reynolds The Fixation (2009), reprinted in Deep Navigation, (p. 66)
“I kept on ignoring him. The dead are only ghosts, after all.”
— Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle (2004), , page 233
“The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich. (Quoted, "He flits across the stage a transient and embarrassed phantom.")”
— Benjamin Disraeli, Endymian, Chapter III

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