Heaven Over the Marshes
(1949)
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Heaven Over the Marshes
(1949)
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Rubi D'Alma | ... |
La contessa Teneroni
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Michele Malaspina | ... |
Il conte
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Domenico Viglione Borghese | ... |
Il dottore
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Inés Orsini | ... |
Maria Goretti
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Assunta Radico | ... |
Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria
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Giovanni Martella | ... |
Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria
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Mauro Matteucci | ... |
Alessandro Serenelli
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Francesco Tomalillo | ... |
Giovanni Serenelli - il padre di Serenelli
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María Luisa Landín | ... |
Lucia
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Ida Paoloni | ... |
Teresa
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Federico Meloni | ... |
Angelo
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Jole Savoretti | ... |
Anna
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Giovanni Sestili | ... |
Mariano
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Vincenzo Solfiotti | ... |
Antonio
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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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