Heaven Over the Marshes
Released: August 3, 1949Runtime: 111 minLanguage: IT
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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Rubi Dalma
as La contessa Teneroni
Michele Malaspina
as Il conte Teneroni
Domenico Viglione Borghese
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Ines Orsini
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Assunta Radico
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Giovanni Martella
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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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