Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the ‘Miss Europe’ pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. Read More »
Tag Archives: Augusto Genina
The Lovers of Midnight (1931) Augusto Genina
Gaston Bouchard, sentenced to 20 years in a penal colony, escapes and meets Marcel Valmont on the train. Read More »
Three Forbidden Stories (1952) Augusto Genina, Lia Amanda
While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Read More »
The Siege of the Alcazar (1940) Augusto Genina, Fosco Giachetti, Mireille Balin, María Denis
Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco. Read More »
We Are Not Children / Nous ne sommes plus des enfants (1934) Augusto Genina, Gaby Morlay, Claude Dauphin, Jean Wall
White Squadron / Lo squadrone bianco (1936) Augusto Genina, Fulvia Lanzi, Francesca Dalpe, Fosco Giachetti
Lieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post Read More »
Cirano di Bergerac (1923) Augusto Genina, Pierre Magnier, Linda Moglia, Angelo Ferrari
Cyrano de Begerac is joyous, witty, a poet, a leader and filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th Century France. Read More »
Cielo sulla palude / Heaven Over the Marshes (1949) Augusto Genina, Rubi D’Alma, Michele Malaspina, Domenico Viglione Borghese, Drama
The scene is the Pontine Marshes, a disease-ridden region. The year is 1902. Maria Goretti, a twelve-year-old girl, lives with her parents, poor farm hands, in the house of Serenelli, a heavy drinker who has offered them board and lodging. The farmer has a son, Alessandro, aged eighteen, who is sexually attracted to the pious girl. Maria resists his advances. One day the young man can’t help it anymore: he rapes Maria before murdering her. Before she dies, Maria forgives her assailant. After her death she is canonized as a saint.
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