Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.
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Anna Magnani | ... | Assunta Spina | |
Antonio Centa | ... | Federico Funelli | |
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Maria Donini | ... | Ernestina |
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Aldo Bufi Landi | ... | Marcello Flaiano (as Aldo Landi) |
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Margherita Pisani | ... | Donna Concetta (as Margherita Pisano) |
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Giacomo Furia | ... | Tittariello |
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Carla Ferraioli | ... | Tina Bouquet |
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Ugo D'Alessio | ... | Epanimonda Pesce |
Aldo Giuffrè | ... | Don Marcusio, la guardia | |
Eduardo De Filippo | ... | Michele Boccadifuoco | |
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Titina De Filippo | ... | Emilia Forcinelli |
Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.
Like all the Grandes Dames ,La Magnani makes herself wait since she does not appear during the first fourteen minutes.For a movie which lasts about 75 minutes it's much!As soon as she is on the screen she mesmerizes the viewer.Even in an average film like this one,with a relatively mediocre screenplay ,La Magnani shines.
She's cast as a semi-whore the people around are always putting down (a lady says: "I do not want to speak ill of her but ....).Her presence in the church is considered a sacrilege (there's the same scene in another Magnani movie :"Volcano" ).All her lovers -when she meets a sincere young man who wants to marry her it's too late- are brutes or cowards .It looks like a blueprint for what will be fully achieved in Pasolini's masterful "Mamma Roma"
Without La Magnani,this film would be forgotten.