Heaven Over the Marshes
movie
Released August 03, 1949
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Overview
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.
Cast
Inés Orsini
as
Maria Goretti
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Giovanni Martella
as
Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria
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Mauro Matteucci
as
Alessandro Serenelli
Rubi D'Alma
as
La contessa Teneroni
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Michele Malaspina
as
Il conte
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Domenico Viglione Borghese
as
Il dottore (as D. Viglione Borghese)
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Assunta Radico
as
Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria
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Francesco Tomalillo
as
Giovanni Serenelli - il padre di Serenelli
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María Luisa Landín
as
Lucia
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Ida Paoloni
as
Teresa
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Federico Meloni
as
Angelo
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Jole Savoretti
as
Anna
Crew
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
as
Screenplay
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Antonio Veretti
as
Original Music Composer
Augusto Genina
as
Director
Fausto Tozzi
as
Screenplay
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Otello Colangeli
as
Editor
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Adriano Cambellotti
as
Costume Design
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Carlo José Bassoli
as
Producer
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Renato Bassoli
as
Producer
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G.R. Aldo
as
Director of Photography
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Goffredo Rocchetti
as
Makeup Artist
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Alfredo Veloccia
as
Production Supervisor
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Edmondo Lozzi
as
Editor