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Monicelli and Scola in San Martino al Cimino

Monicelli and Scola in San Martino al Cimino

Monicelli e Scola a San Martino al Cimino

Itineraries

Vittorio Gassman e Fulvia Franco sul set de L’Armata Brancaleone (1966). ©Archivio Fotografico - Cineteca Nazionale Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

Brancaleone's land

Between August and September 1957, Mario Monicelli set most of the exterior scenes of Il medico e lo stregone in four locations in Tuscia: San Martino al Cimino, Valentano (the sequences of city life were filmed on the streets of these two towns), Grotte Santo Stefano (the entire sequence of the meeting between Marisa Merlini and her previous...
Piazza del Plebiscito (Viterbo), Christopher Abbott e Austin Stowell sul set di Catch-22 di George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Ellen Kuras (2019). Foto: Philippe Antonello

Viterbo

Since the first decades of the 1900s, Viterbo has been the ideal location for cinematographic productions. Over time, numerous film directors have chosen Viterbo: from the pioneer of silent movies Silvio Laurenti Rosa - born in Viterbo – who shot here some sequences of his anti-communist melodrama Katiuscia (1923), to the actor and film director...