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.

Cielo.sulla.palude.AKA.Heaven.over.the.Marshes.1949.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 44mn
Size:	2.49 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
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Resolution:	690x498 ~> 747x498
Aspect ratio:	3:2
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English,Italian

The post Augusto Genina – Cielo sulla palude AKA Heaven Over the Marshes (1949) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A TV movie (aired on Rai on July 2, 1962) that seems to come from a remote galaxy. We are no longer used to anything like this. It is an alienating charm, consciously cooled to the extreme, stylized in its scenographic and luminous lines of relentless, literary cleanliness (where can we hear a word like “dripping” on TV today?), Without a shred of sentimentality.

In short, Bertolt Brecht on the small screen. The text is taken from a radio original by Friedrich Dürenmatt.

2255: A delegation from the Free Confederate States of the Earth goes on a mission to Venus, which is now a prison reserved for human scum. The occupiers must be persuaded to team up with the mother planet in a war against a destructive alien force. To be more persuasive, the Earthlings carry some nuclear warheads with them. The adventure becomes a tragic, exquisitely mental game.
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1.29GB | 1 h 13 min | 1024×576 | mkv

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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Vittorio Cottafavi – Operazione Vega (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.