Set during the Spanish Civil War, Genina’s film celebrates the 70-day defence of the Alcazar fortress in Toledo by Nationalist troops under the command of General Moscardo. It is an example of a documentario romanzato or “fictional documentary”, a combination of historical facts with elements of romanticised fiction.

The principal romantic subplot is the relationship between Captain Vela (Fosco Giachetti) and a nurse (Mireille Balin). Balin’s involvement in this pro-fascist film counted heavily against her when charges of collaboration were made at the end of the war.

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The post Augusto Genina – L’assedio dell’Alcazar aka The Siege of the Alcazar [Italian censored version] (1940) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The story is taken from the drama “I Pescatori” (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another man who however secretly lusts after his stepdaughter until when, on a stormy night…
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Fosco Giachetti gives a great performance as the rough and hulking patriarch, Domenico, who becomes sexually obsessed with his almost angelic stepdaughter, Caterina (Marina Berti). The beautiful location photography and attention to detail of the hard life of the fishing community naturally adds to the appeal of the film.

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Language:Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Gianni Franciolini – Notte di tempesta (1946) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Recently returned to Rome after a long imprisonment of war, doctor Paolo Marchini learns that his wife Patrizia was arrested for murder.
Three years before, not having money to treat her seriously ill child, she had consented to an appointment with a wealthy unknown gentleman, whom she had not met again ever since.
This man had showed up the night before, trying to draw on her again. Quarrel, gunshot…
Patrizia is acquitted at the trial. For the three, life begins anew.

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Language(s):Italian
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The post Mario Mattoli – La vita ricomincia AKA Life Begins Anew (1945) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear – the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the grublike fat of the appeasers and oppressors. In a bitter struggle of the individual against the collective, three people stand forth with the mark of the unconquered in their bearing: Kira, who wants to be a builder, and the two men who love her – Leo, an aristocrat, and Andrei, a Communist. In their tensely dramatic story, Ayn Rand shows what the theories of Communism mean in practice. We the Living is not a story of politics but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what dictatorship – of any kind – does to human beings, what kind of men are able to survive, and which of them remain as the ultimate winners. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb? Who are the winners in this conflict? Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand offers an answer that challenges the modern conscience.

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Subtitles:English hardsubbed

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