Release Date

03 Aug, 1949

Runtime

01:51: (HH:MM)

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.

Original Title

Cielo sulla palude

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Actors

Inés Orsini

Giovanni Martella

Mauro Matteucci

Rubi D'Alma

Michele Malaspina

Domenico Viglione Borghese

Assunta Radico

Francesco Tomalillo

María Luisa Landín

Ida Paoloni

Federico Meloni

Jole Savoretti

Giovanni Sestili

Vincenzo Solfiotti

Crew

Augusto Genina

Fausto Tozzi

Suso Cecchi d'Amico

Antonio Veretti

G.R. Aldo

Carlo José Bassoli

Renato Bassoli

Otello Colangeli

Edmondo Lozzi

Virgilio Marchi

Virgilio Marchi

Adriano Cambellotti

Anna Maria Feo

Goffredo Rocchetti