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The Path of Hope

Original title: Il cammino della speranza
  • 19501950
  • 1h 45m
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7.5/10
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The Path of Hope (1950)
AdventureDrama
The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families, and their hardships as they decide to illegally cross the border to France.The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families, and their hardships as they decide to illegally cross the border to France.The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families, and their hardships as they decide to illegally cross the border to France.
IMDb RATING
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612
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    • Pietro Germi
  • Writers
    • Nino Di Maria(novel: "Cuori negli abissi")
    • Federico Fellini(story)
    • Pietro Germi(story)
  • Stars
    • Raf Vallone
    • Elena Varzi
    • Saro Urzì
    • Pietro Germi
  • Writers
    • Nino Di Maria(novel: "Cuori negli abissi")
    • Federico Fellini(story)
    • Pietro Germi(story)
  • Stars
    • Raf Vallone
    • Elena Varzi
    • Saro Urzì
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    • 3User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    The Path of Hope (1950)
    The Path of Hope (1950)
    Franco Navarra, Raf Vallone, and Elena Varzi in The Path of Hope (1950)
    Raf Vallone and Elena Varzi in The Path of Hope (1950)
    Raf Vallone and Elena Varzi in The Path of Hope (1950)
    Chicco Coluzzi, Luciana Coluzzi, Angelina Scaldaferri, and Raf Vallone in The Path of Hope (1950)
    The Path of Hope (1950)
    Elena Varzi in The Path of Hope (1950)
    Franco Navarra, Saro Urzì, and Elena Varzi in The Path of Hope (1950)
    Liliana Lattanzi, Giuseppe Priolo, Paolo Reale, and Renato Terra in The Path of Hope (1950)
    Mirella Ciotti and Angelo Grasso in The Path of Hope (1950)
    Raf Vallone in The Path of Hope (1950)

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    Raf Vallone
    Raf Vallone
    • Saro Cammarata
    Elena Varzi
    • Barbara Spadaro
    Saro Urzì
    Saro Urzì
    • Ciccio Ingaggiatore
    Franco Navarra
    • Vanni
    Liliana Lattanzi
    • Rosa
    Mirella Ciotti
    • Lorenza
    Saro Arcidiacono
    • Carmelo Musco
    Francesco Tomalillo
    • Misciu
    • (as Francesco Tomolillo)
    Paolo Reale
    • Brasi
    Giuseppe Priolo
    • Luca
    Renato Terra
    Renato Terra
    • Mommino
    Carmela Trovato
    • Cirmena
    Angelo Grasso
    • Antonio
    Assunta Radico
    • Beatificata
    Francesca Russella
    • Grandmother
    Giuseppe Cibardo
    • Turi
    Nicoló Gibilaro
    • Grandfather
    Chicco Coluzzi
    • Buda
      • Pietro Germi
    • Writers
      • Nino Di Maria(novel: "Cuori negli abissi")
      • Federico Fellini(story) (screenplay)
      • Pietro Germi(story)
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    • Trivia
      Italian censorship visa #8697 dated 11 October1950.
    • Connections
      Edited into Lo schermo a tre punte (1995)

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    8/10
    I believe in a promised land.
    There were many italian immigrants in France in the post-war years ;it began to decline in the mid-seventies ; French often called them names,notably "macaronis" and there were social tensions ,the "wops " being strike-breakers . Just as it happens in the movie between compatriots ,between people from Sicily and those they met on the farm ,the people from northern Italy.

    Pietro Germi's odyssey belongs to the Italian neo -realism and it has worn well,in spite of unfair critics , because the subplots are kept to economical levels: the Saro/Barbara /Vanni triangle which sometimes gets in the way ,is given small time in the whole movie.

    The true hero is not Vallone but this little group , who leaves unemployement and poverty of their native island for the broader horizons of France , their promised land ;Vallone does not play the part of Mosis ,and it's better that way. This won't be a easy journey ,but a rocky road where they come against the carabinieri : their expatriation is illegal ;besides they are betrayed by their smuggler ;and for their compatriots ,they are nothing but scabs.

    And however it seems that at first ,on the farm ,a fraternity could exist : the Sicilian's guitar and the northern worker's accordion make everyone dance .These people who have given all they have for something new and unknown , show humanity (the bride's bouquet thrown on a mama's grave),solidarity ( they keep Barbara with them on the truck);sometimes they have to give up on their dreams,mainly the older ones ("I prefer to die where I was born") .

    The ending has been blamed ,considered artificial happy end :but only a few of them were able to get to the border,and anyway,is it Heaven's gate (see what I wrote at the beginning of my comment)?But Pietro Germi wanted to leave his audience on a hopeful note : and anyway,whatever lays in store for them in France ,is it worse than their empty mines in Sicily ,where they nearly died :wasn't it some kind of hell?
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    • Feb 4, 2020

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      • November 22, 1950 (Italy)
      • Italy
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production company
      • Lux Film
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    • 1 hour 45 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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