Heaven Over the Marshes (1949)
Cielo sulla palude (original title)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Rubi D'Alma	...	La contessa Teneroni
	Michele Malaspina	...	Il conte
	Domenico Viglione Borghese	...	Il dottore (as D. Viglione Borghese)
	Inés Orsini	...	Maria Goretti
	Assunta Radico	...	Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria
	Giovanni Martella	...	Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria
	Mauro Matteucci	...	Alessandro Serenelli
	Francesco Tomalillo	...	Giovanni Serenelli - il padre di Serenelli
	María Luisa Landín	...	Lucia
	Ida Paoloni	...	Teresa
	Federico Meloni	...	Angelo
	Jole Savoretti	...	Anna
	Giovanni Sestili	...	Mariano
	Vincenzo Solfiotti	...	Antonio

Storyline

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. Written by Guy Bellinger  

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