Heaven Over the Marshes (1949)

08/03/1949 (IT) Drama 1h 51m
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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.

  1. Augusto Genina

    Director

  2. Suso Cecchi d'Amico

    Screenplay

  3. Fausto Tozzi

    Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

  1. Inés Orsini

    Maria Goretti

  2. Giovanni Martella

    Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria

  3. Mauro Matteucci

    Alessandro Serenelli

  4. Rubi D'Alma

    Rubi D'Alma

    La contessa Teneroni

  5. Michele Malaspina

    Il conte

  6. Domenico Viglione Borghese

    Il dottore (as D. Viglione Borghese)

  7. Assunta Radico

    Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria

  8. Francesco Tomalillo

    Giovanni Serenelli - il padre di Serenelli

  9. María Luisa Landín

    Lucia

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Heaven Over the Marshes
Heaven Over the Marshes

Original Title Cielo sulla palude

Status Released

Original Language Italian

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