Heaven over the Marshes
1949 film
- Suso Cecchi D'Amico
- Elvira Psorulla
- Fausto Tozzi
- Augusto Genina
Renato Bassoli
- Rubi D'Alma
- Michele Malaspina
- Domenico Viglione Borghese
- Inés Orsini
- Otello Colangeli
- Edmond Lozzi
Production
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Film Bassoli
Release date
- 24 November 1949 (1949-11-24)
Running time
Heaven over the Marshes (Italian: Cielo sulla palude) is a 1949 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Rubi Dalma, Michele Malaspina, Inés Orsini and Domenico Viglione Borghese. The film portrays the life of the saint Maria Goretti. Augusto Genina was awarded the Nastro d'Argento for Best Director for the film.[1] In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978".[2] The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi.
Cast
- Rubi D'Alma as La contessa Teneroni
- Michele Malaspina as Il conte
- Domenico Viglione Borghese as Il dottore
- Inés Orsini as Maria Goretti
- Assunta Radico as Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria
- Giovanni Martella as Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria
- Mauro Matteucci as Alessandro Serenelli
- Francesco Tomalillo as Giovanni Serenelli - il padre di Serenelli
- María Luisa Landín as Lucia
- Ida Paoloni as Teresa
- Federico Meloni as Angelo
- Jole Savoretti as Anna
- Giovanni Sestili as Mariano
- Vincenzo Solfiotti as Antonio
References
Bibliography
- Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
- Heaven over the Marshes at IMDb
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The films of Augusto Genina
- Goodbye Youth (1918)
- The Prince of the Impossible (1918)
- The Beautiful Wife (1924)
- The Hearth Turned Off (1925)
- The Last Lord (1926)
- Goodbye Youth (1927)
- The Prisoners of Shanghai (1927)
- The Story of a Little Parisian (1928)
- Scampolo (1928)
- Love's Masquerade (1928)
- Latin Quarter (1929)
- Miss Europe (1930)
- The Darling of Paris (1931)
- The Lovers of Midnight (1931)
- The Woman Dressed As a Man (1932)
- We Are Not Children (1934)
- Forget Me Not (1935)
- The White Squadron (1936)
- Flowers from Nice (1936)
- The Phantom Gondola (1936)
- The Kiss of Fire (1937)
- Woman's Love—Woman's Suffering (1937)
- Castles in the Air (1939)
- The Siege of the Alcazar (1940)
- Bengasi (1942)
- Heaven over the Marshes (1949)
- Devotion (1950)
- Three Forbidden Stories (1952)
- Maddalena (1954)
- Frou-Frou (1955)
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