Film

Heaven Over the Marshes

5.4

1h 51m

1949

Synopsis

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.

Director

Augusto Genina

Drama

catholic

Cast & Crew

Inés Orsini

as Maria Goretti

Giovanni Martella

as Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria

Mauro Matteucci

as Alessandro Serenelli

Rubi D'Alma

as La contessa Teneroni

Michele Malaspina

as Il conte

Domenico Viglione Borghese

as Il dottore (as D. Viglione Borghese)

Assunta Radico

as Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria

Francesco Tomalillo

as Giovanni Serenelli - il padre di Serenelli

María Luisa Landín

as Lucia

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