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 References Bibliography Bayman, Louis & Rigoletto, Sergio. Popular Italian Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. External links 1946 films 1946 musical films 1940s war films Italian musical films Italian war films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Carmine Gallone Italian black-and-white films Films based on operas Films about singers Films set in Rome Films set in 1944 Italian Campaign of World War II films Films about Italian resistance movement Minerva Film films Melodrama films Opera films Films scored by Renzo Rossellini Italian World War II films 1940s Italian films