Heaven Over the Marshes

Heaven Over the Marshes

1949
1h 51m
5.4

5.4/10

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Drama
Overview

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.

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Production Information

Production Companies
Film Bassoli Arx
Production Countries
Italy
Spoken Languages
Italian

Keywords

catholic

Quick Facts

Original Title Cielo sulla palude
Release Date August 3, 1949
Status Released
Language IT
IMDb ID tt0041248

Cast

Inés Orsini
Inés Orsini

Maria Goretti

Giovanni Martella
Giovanni Martella

Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria

Mauro Matteucci
Mauro Matteucci

Alessandro Serenelli

Rubi D'Alma
Rubi D'Alma

La contessa Teneroni

Michele Malaspina
Michele Malaspina

Il conte

Domenico Viglione Borghese
Domenico Viglione Borghese

Il dottore (as D. Viglione Borghese)

Assunta Radico
Assunta Radico

Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria

Francesco Tomalillo
Francesco Tomalillo

Giovanni Serenelli - il padre di Serenelli

María Luisa Landín
María Luisa Landín

Lucia

Ida Paoloni
Ida Paoloni

Teresa

Federico Meloni
Federico Meloni

Angelo

Jole Savoretti
Jole Savoretti

Anna

Key Crew

Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Screenplay
Augusto Genina
Director
Fausto Tozzi
Screenplay
Carlo José Bassoli
Producer
Renato Bassoli
Producer