Heaven Over the Marshes
1949·Italy·111 min.
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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.
DirectorAugusto Genina
MusicAntonio Veretti
CinematographyAldo Graziati
CastRubi D'Alma·Michele Malaspina·Domenico Viglione Borghese·Inés Orsini·Assunta Radico·Giovanni Martella·Mauro Matteucci·Francesco Tomalillo
Original titleCielo sulla palude