Heaven Over the Marshes (1949)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1949-08-03
Runtime: 111 minutes
Director: Augusto Genina
Top Cast
- Inés Orsini as Maria Goretti
- Giovanni Martella as Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria
- Mauro Matteucci as Alessandro Serenelli
- Rubi D'Alma as La contessa Teneroni
- Michele Malaspina as Il conte
- Domenico Viglione Borghese as Il dottore (as D. Viglione Borghese)
- Assunta Radico as Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria
- Francesco Tomalillo as Giovanni Serenelli - il padre di Serenelli
- María Luisa Landín as Lucia
- Ida Paoloni as Teresa
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