Heaven Over the Marshes

1949111m6.2 (6)
Drama

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.

Crew

Augusto Genina

Augusto Genina

Director

Fausto Tozzi

Fausto Tozzi

Screenplay

Suso Cecchi d'Amico

Suso Cecchi d'Amico

Screenplay

AV

Antonio Veretti

Original Music Composer

GA

G.R. Aldo

Director of Photography

CJ

Carlo José Bassoli

Producer

RB

Renato Bassoli

Producer

Cast

Inés Orsini

Inés Orsini

Maria Goretti

GM

Giovanni Martella

Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria

MM

Mauro Matteucci

Alessandro Serenelli

Rubi D'Alma

Rubi D'Alma

La contessa Teneroni

MM

Michele Malaspina

Il conte

DV

Domenico Viglione Borghese

Il dottore (as D. Viglione Borghese)

AR

Assunta Radico

Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria

FT

Francesco Tomalillo

Giovanni Serenelli - il padre di Serenelli

ML

María Luisa Landín

Lucia

IP

Ida Paoloni

Teresa

FM

Federico Meloni

Angelo

JS

Jole Savoretti

Anna

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