Heaven over the Marshes
Director: Augusto Genina Cast Ines Orsini, Mauro Matteucci, Giovanni Martella, Assunta Radico Production: Arx Film - Country: Italy, Year: 1949, Synopsis: The scene is the Pontine Marshes, a disease-ridden region. The year is 1902. Maria Goretti, a twelve-year-old girl, lives with her parents, poor farm hands, in the house of Serenelli, a heavy drinker who has offered them board and lodging. The farmer has a son, Alessandro, aged eighteen, who is sexually attracted to the pious girl. Maria resi...
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Director: Augusto Genina Cast Ines Orsini, Mauro Matteucci, Giovanni Martella, Assunta Radico Production: Arx Film - Country: Italy, Year: 1949, Synopsis: The scene is the Pontine Marshes, a disease-ridden region. The year is 1902. Maria Goretti, a twelve-year-old girl, lives with her parents, poor farm hands, in the house of Serenelli, a heavy drinker who has offered them board and lodging. The farmer has a son, Alessandro, aged eighteen, who is sexually attracted to the pious girl. Maria resists his advances. One day the young man can't help it anymore: he rapes Maria before murdering her. Before she dies, Maria forgives her assailant. After her death she is canonized as a saint.
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serena R.3/27/2020Vita di Santa Maria Goretti. Un dvd appassionante del 1949, in bianco e nero, recitato molto bene. Consiglio l'acquisto
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