Heaven Over the Marshes
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Unlike most Italian films of the 1940s, Augusto Genina's Cielo Sulla Palude opened in Venice rather than Rome. The film's American title was Heaven Over the Marshes, and indeed most of the story is set in the disease-ridden Pontine Marshes on the outskirts of Rome. This was the home of Maria Goretti, a pious young girl who was murdered by her would-be seducer. For reasons elucidated in the course of the film, Maria's short time on earth made her worthy of Sainthood, which was actually bestowed upon her shortly after the release of this film. Maria Goretti is well-played by Ines Orsini. Cielo Sulla Palude served as the comeback feature for director Augusto Genina, whose previous pro-fascist films had caused him to be blacklisted after WW II.
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Edited by Otello ColangeliShot by G R AldoScored by Antonio VerettiDesigned by Virgilio Marchi
Also known as
- Himmel über den Sümpfende
- Heaven over the Marshesen
- Cielo sobre el pantanoes
- La Fille des maraisfr
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21 unique people credited
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Rubi Dalma
as La contessa Teneroni
Michele Malaspina
as Il conte Teneroni
Domenico Viglione Borghese
as Il dottore
Ines 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
Maria Luisa Landi
as Lucia
Ida Paoloni
as Teresa
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