Tag Archives: Augusto Genina
White Squadron AKA 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 »
Miss Europe AKA Prix de beauté (1930) Augusto Genina, Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini
Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the ‘Miss Europe’ pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. 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 »
The Lovers of Midnight (1931) Augusto Genina, Marc Allégret, Danièle Parola, Pierre Batcheff, Louis Zellas, Crime, Drama, Romance
Gaston Bouchard, sentenced to 20 years in a penal colony, escapes and meets Marcel Valmont on the train. 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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