Screenplay: Augusto Genina

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Augusto Genina. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Heaven Over the Marshes

1949 · Movie · 111 min. · Italy

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Rubi D'Alma · Michele Malaspina · Domenico Viglione Borghese · Inés Orsini

Synopsis 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,...

6.8

29 votes

6.8

29 votes

White Squadron

1936 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Fulvia Lanzi · Francesca Dalpe · Fosco Giachetti · Antonio Centa

Synopsis Lieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post when his romance with society girl Cristiana goes on the rocks. Ludovici is looked upon as a...

6.2

39 votes

6.2

39 votes

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Scampolo

1928 · Movie · 80 min. · Germany

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Carmen Boni · Livio Pavanelli · Hans Junkermann · Lya Christy

Synopsis Scampolo is a young orphan in Rome who survives by doing all kinds of little jobs. Her only comforts in life are a little dog and an old professor who...

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The Wife He Neglected

1918 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Maria Jacobini · Alfonso Cassini · Vittorio Rossi Pianelli · Arnold Kent

Synopsis A businessman marries Maria, the daughter of the rich professor, not for love but for personal gain. He betrays and humiliates her but she hides his despicable character from both...

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My Darned Father

1958 · Movie · 98 min. · France

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Latin Quarter

1929 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Gina Manès · Carmen Boni · Helga Thomas · Ivan Petrovich

Synopsis Ralph, the son of a wealthy banker, meets young Mimi, a modest student, at a masked ball. They fall in love. Ralph decides not to reveal his real status to...

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The Toy Wife

1955 · Movie · 112 min. · France

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Dany Robin · Gino Cervi · Philippe Lemaire · Jean Wall

Synopsis With the help of four protectors, a young Parisian flower girl becomes a famous cabaret singer. She marries one, a Russian prince, but then has other loves until a suicidal...

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Inconstant Youth

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · Italy

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Carmen Boni · Walter Slezak · Elena Sangro · Augusto Bandini

Synopsis The film is set in Turin at the beginning of the Twentieth century, where a student begins a romance with a seamstress Dorina. However, he is lured away by a...

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Bengasi

1942 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Fosco Giachetti · Amedeo Nazzari · Vivi Gioi · Mária Tasnádi Fekete

Synopsis A widowed woman relives her harrowing war memories of the Italian defeat by the British at Bengasi. This film portrays the British in a most unfavorable light, as a bunch...

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The Lovers of Midnight

1931 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Augusto Genina · Marc Allégret

Cast Danièle Parola · Pierre Batcheff · Louis Zellas · Josseline Gaël

Synopsis Gaston Bouchard, sentenced to 20 years in a penal colony, escapes and meets Marcel Valmont on the train. He notices a ticket to South America and a large sum of...

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Devotion

1950 · Movie · Italy

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Columba Domínguez · Roldano Lupi · Juan de Landa · Franca Marzi

Synopsis In Sardinia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the once powerful aristocratic Decherchi family is going through difficult times and is threatened with eviction. To be able to pay...

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Good-bye Youth

1918 · Movie · 77 min. · Italy

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Maddalena

1954 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Märta Torén · Gino Cervi · Charles Vanel · Jacques Sernas

Synopsis The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo (Gino Cervi) faces a crisis when the girl selected to play...

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