The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Directed by Carmine Gallone
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Cast

Roland Alexandre
Gioacchino Rossini

Elisa Cegani
Giuseppina Strepponi

Danièle Delorme
Maria

Gabriele Ferzetti
Giacomo Puccini

Renzo Giovampietro
Tito Ricordi

Fosco Giachetti
Giuseppe Verdi

Nadia Gray
Giulia Grisi

Roldano Lupi
Domenico Barbaja

Paolo Stoppa
Giovanni Ricordi

Vira Silenti
Marietta Ricordi

Myriam Bru
Luisa Lewis

Marcello Mastroianni
Gaetano Donizetti

Fausto Tozzi
Arrigo Boito

Micheline Presle
Virginia Marchi
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