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