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Mist on the Sea
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Wikipedia article
'Mist on the Sea' (Italian: 'Nebbie sul mare') is a 1944 Italian drama film directed by Marcello Pagliero and Hans Hinrich and starring Viveca Lindfors, Gustav Diessl and Umberto Spadaro.Qvist & Von Bagh p.105 The film's sets were designed by the art director Salvo D'Angelo.
Synopsis
An Italian couple Maria and Pietro Rosati live in Brazil where they manage an estate. One day when Maria is faced by sexual assault, her husband kills the preparator. Pietro is pursued by the police and is shot and tumlbles lifelessly into a river. Maria is charged as an accomplice, but after her a lengthy trial she is acquitted. A few years later she is working as an assistant to a doctor at a research institute. They falls in love and marry, but when Brazil enters the Second World War all Italian citizens are dismissed and expelled from the country, they catch the last available ship for home. To their shock they discover Pietro working as a stoker in the engine room, he miraculously survived his fall into the river and has been laying low in the meantime. He demands his wife comes back to him, but she says he is pregnant and loves her second husband, even if the marriage is technically invalid. When the ship hits a mine, Pietro nobly sacrifices himself by helping Maria and the doctor into the lifeboat and then cutting the rope.
Cast
* Viveca Lindfors as Maria Rosati
* Gustav Diessl as Pietro Rosati
* Otello Toso as Il dottore Leonardo Monti
* Umberto Spadaro as Il fuochista
* Claudio Ermelli as Silva
* Carmen Navascus as Dolores, la ballerina
* Adele Garavaglia as La governante di Leonardo
* Guido Morisi as Ruiz, il direttore del laboratorio sieroterapico
* Carlo Duse as Lopez, il creditore
* Mario Brizzolari as Un membro della Commissione di Sanit
* Aristide Garbini as Il capitano della nave
* Giulio Battiferri as Il direttore della ditta commerciale
* Bruno Smith as L'ufficiale sulla nave
* Stefano Sibaldi as Il suonatore di contrabasso
* Roberto Manzi as Il vicecomandante della nave
References
Bibliography
* Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. 'Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland'. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000
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