Heaven Over the Marshes (1949)
1h 51m
Running Time
August 3, 1949Release Date
Heaven Over the Marshes (1949)
1h 51m
Running Time
August 3, 1949Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Inés Orsini
Maria Goretti

Giovanni Martella
Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria

Mauro Matteucci
Alessandro Serenelli

Rubi D'Alma
La contessa Teneroni

Michele Malaspina
Il conte

Domenico Viglione Borghese
Il dottore (as D. Viglione Borghese)

Assunta Radico
Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria

Francesco Tomalillo
Giovanni Serenelli - il padre di Serenelli

María Luisa Landín
Lucia

Ida Paoloni
Teresa

Federico Meloni
Angelo

Jole Savoretti
Anna

Giovanni Sestili
Mariano

Vincenzo Solfiotti
Antonio

Antonio Veretti
Original Music Composer

Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Screenplay

Augusto Genina
Director

Fausto Tozzi
Screenplay / Assistant Director

Carlo José Bassoli
Producer / Unit Manager

Alfredo Veloccia
Production Supervisor

Goffredo Rocchetti
Makeup Artist

Virgilio Marchi
Set Decoration / Production Design

Edmondo Lozzi
Editor

Primo Zeglio
Assistant Director

Otello Colangeli
Editor

Siro Marcellini
Assistant Director

Ovidio Del Grande
Sound

Renato Bassoli
Producer

Anna Maria Feo
Costume Design

Adriano Cambellotti
Costume Design

G.R. Aldo
Director of Photography

Pietro Zlatarow
Production Manager
Media.



Details.
Release DateAugust 3, 1949
Original NameCielo sulla palude
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 51m
Filming LocationsNettuno, Italy
Genres
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Wiki.
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. 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". The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi.
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