Jealousy (1953 Italian film)

Jealousy
Directed byPietro Germi
Written byGiuseppe Mangione
Giuseppe Berto
Pietro Germi
Based onThe Marquis of Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana
Produced byEmimmo Salvi
Mario Silvestri
StarringErno Crisa
Marisa Belli
Vincenzo Musolino
CinematographyLeonida Barboni
Edited byRolando Benedetti
Music byCarlo Rustichelli
Production
company
Distributed byMinerva Film
Release date
  • 29 September 1953 (1953-09-29)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Jealousy (Italian: Gelosia) is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Pietro Germi and starring Erno Crisa, Marisa Belli and Vincenzo Musolino. It is based on the 1901 novel The Marquis of Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana.[1][2] It was shot on location around Belmonte Mezzagno in Sicily. The story had previously been made into a 1942 film of the same title.

Plot

At the church, Rocco, steward on the lands of a landowner, the Marquis of Roccaverdina, marries the beautiful peasant girl Agrippina. But he was shot twice. Justice arrests and condemns a certain Neli. In truth, the assassin is the marquis himself who had contracted a sham marriage with the young woman so that she would remain his mistress...[3]

Cast

  • Erno Crisa as Baron Antonio
  • Marisa Belli as Agrippina
  • Alessandro Fersen as Don Silvio
  • Liliana Gerace as Countess Zosima
  • Vincenzo Musolino as Farmer Rocco
  • Grazia Spadaro as Mamma Grazia
  • Gustavo De Nardo as Neli Casaccio
  • Maresa Gallo as Santa
  • Pasquale Martino as Commissario
  • Renato Pinciroli as The Lawyer
  • Amedeo Trilli as Il maresciallo
  • Guido Medici as The Judge
  • Paola Borboni as Aunt Baroness
  • Loriana Varoli as Cristina
  • Giovanni Martella as Salvatore
  • Assunta Radico as Madre di Agrippina
  • Gustavo Serena as Doctor

References

  1. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
  2. ↑ Paolo Mereghetti (2010). Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 978-8860736260.
  3. ↑ "Oeuvres | La Cinémathèque québécoise" (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-02.
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