The Magistrate is a 1959

1959 in film

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.-Events:* The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters....

  Italian-language drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Luigi Zampa

Luigi Zampa

Luigi Zampa was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome....

. It was a co-production with Spain and France. Spaniard José Suárez

José Suárez

-Career:José Suárez made his debut in a short role in Altar Mayor , a very conventional film, whose director, Gonzalo Delgrás, had paid attention to him in his work as a train conductor in Asturias...

 stars in the film, which was shot in Madrid

Madrid

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 (exterior locations Plaza de España, Plaza Mayor, Parque del Oeste), with a French, Italian and Spanish cast. The name of the Italian city where the action takes place is never mentioned.

A 21-year-old Claudia Cardinale

Claudia Cardinale

Claudia Cardinale is an Italian actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French...

 played the role of Orlando's wife in the film.

Cast

• José Suárez
  José Suárez
  -Career:José Suárez made his debut in a short role in Altar Mayor , a very conventional film, whose director, Gonzalo Delgrás, had paid attention to him in his work as a train conductor in Asturias...
  
   - Andrea Morandi
• François Périer
  François Périer
  François Périer, , born François Pillu in Paris, was one of France's most distinguished actors.He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996. He was also prominent in the theatre. Among his most notable parts was that of Hugo in the first production of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains...
  
   - Luigi Bonelli
• Jacqueline Sassard
  Jacqueline Sassard
  Jacqueline Sassard is an actress best known for appearances in Italian films such as Guendalina directed by Alberto Lattuada, a young woman with family and economical troubles in Luigi Zampa's Il Magistrato and Valerio Zurlini's Violent Summer , in which her character was left by Jean Louis...
  
   - Carla Bonelli
• Julia Caba Alba
• Claudia Cardinale
  Claudia Cardinale
  Claudia Cardinale is an Italian actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French...
  
  
• Ana Mariscal
  Ana Mariscal
  Ana Mariscal was a classic Spanish film actress, director, screenwriter and film producer.She was involved in well over 50 films between 1940 and 1968.Her brother Luis Arroyo was also an actor and film director....