In order to overturn the government of some exotic country, the rebels decide to hire an experienced American diver (George Hilton). His risky mission: recover from the botton of the sea a treasure, which would provide financial support to their endeavor.Read More »
A merchant’s house in the Stockholm archipelago. Katha, an old woman comes here every year. So does her father, who once built the house. She wants the family, her children and their children to join her at Paradistorg. This leads to conflicts.Read More »
The “stone in the mouth” is the scar taht the mafia makes on affiliaded man’s corpse who betrayed.
The modern mafia has the historical and sociological roots into the birth of the american capitalism at the time of Roosvelt. The american “Cosa Nostra” applies the similar methods as the sicilian mafia: same apparatus, same “omertà”, same power and same terror.
Giuseppe Ferrara, journalist e writer, uses fragments footage,film clips,(Salvatore Giuliano
by Franco Rosi, Paisà by Roberto Rossellini) and really current news to make this image ok mafia.Read More »
The son of a rich Italian industrialist finds out how tough it is to leave the path society has set for him.Read More »
Plot Synopsis (by Hal Erickson)
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.Read More »
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A police officer meets a girl who is near to falling into the net of shady individuals. To prevent this, he invites her into the police station and tells her a story.Read More »
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man’s materialistic nature.Read More »
Plot: A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings – Alphonse, a young Waloon officer, rides through the Murgia to reach his regiment in Naples but soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over ten days. A range of situations in stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provide entertainment on an epic scale. The two men’s destiny intertwined, it is difficult to know who’s real between the two and who belongs to the other’s mind. This is a journey for both of them which Alphonse will continue, uncertain in the end, if his experiences were real or a dream.Read More »
Set during General Francisco Franco’s counterrevolutionary campaign, which concluded in 1939 with the conquest of Madrid and the end of the Spanish Civil War.
Two soldiers from an itlaian fascist battalion sent to support Franco’s troops befriend each other; one is a former communist revolutionary who enlisted in the hope of finding a way to escape to America, the other is a poor nobody who has found in the army the alternative to working in the sulfur mines.
The horrors of war will transform both men.Read More »