Heaven over the Marshes

Heaven over the Marshes
Film poster
Directed by	Augusto Genina
Written by	Suso Cecchi D'Amico Elvira Psorulla Fausto Tozzi Augusto Genina
Produced by	Carlo José Bassoli Renato Bassoli
Starring	Rubi D'Alma Michele Malaspina Domenico Viglione Borghese Inés Orsini
Cinematography	G.R. Aldo
Edited by	Otello Colangeli Edmond Lozzi
Music by	Antonio Veretti
Production company	Film Bassoli
Release date	24 November 1949 (1949-11-24)
Running time	111 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Heaven over the Marshes (Italian: Cielo sulla palude) is a 1949 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Rubi Dalma, Michele Malaspina, Inés Orsini and Domenico Viglione Borghese. The film portrays the life of the saint Maria Goretti. Augusto Genina was awarded the Nastro d'Argento for Best Director for the film.^[1] In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978".^[2] The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi.

Cast

• Rubi D'Alma as La contessa Teneroni
• Michele Malaspina as Il conte
• Domenico Viglione Borghese as Il dottore
• Inés Orsini as Maria Goretti
• Assunta Radico as Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria
• Giovanni Martella as Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria
• Mauro Matteucci as Alessandro Serenelli
• Francesco Tomalillo as Giovanni Serenelli - il padre di Serenelli
• María Luisa Landín as Lucia
• Ida Paoloni as Teresa
• Federico Meloni as Angelo
• Jole Savoretti as Anna
• Giovanni Sestili as Mariano
• Vincenzo Solfiotti as Antonio

References

1. Moliterno p.383
2. "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.

Bibliography

• Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

• Heaven over the Marshes at IMDb