La fossa degli angeli (1937)
January 1, 1937Release Date
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In Carrara the daughter of the owner of a small quarry, called the "Fossa degli angeli", is engaged to a young excavator. He lives together with a worker leader who loves him as a father, having been entrusted to him by his father's father, dead by a marmifer break. The girl, however, at some point realizes that she loves her boyfriend's friend; and she also realizes that she is being replaced. After a strenuous struggle on herself the two, met by chance, declare their affections and at that moment a break is engulfing some workers, including the fiancé. The two consider themselves, at first, almost guilty of his death; but finally, they free themselves from this nightmare and marry.
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Tomb of the Angels (Italian: La fossa degli angeli) is a 1937 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Luisa Ferida, and Antonio Gradoli. Roberto Rossellini co-wrote the screenplay and served as assistant director. It was shot on location in the Apuan Alps in Liguria, and is set amidst the marble quarries of the area. It marked an early attempt at realism in Italian cinema, anticipating neorealism of the postwar era. It is similar in style to Walter Ruttmann's Steel of 1933, in it celebrated Italy's industrial strength in line with the propaganda of the Mussolini regime.