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Un uomo ritorna
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Wikipedia article
'Un uomo ritorna' (also known as 'Revenge') is a 1946 Italian drama film directed by Max Neufeld.
It was shown as part of a retrospective "Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato" at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.
Plot
The film is set in April 1945. The engineer Sergio returns home to a town in Lazio after five years as a prisoner of war. He finds his homeland ravaged. The minefields and hydroelectric power plant were the main sources of employment and they are both destroyed. His old mother and a brother are still there but his wife Adele is working in Rome. Their son has been taken in a fascist raid. When Adele learns the son has died she goes after revenge armed with a gun.
Cast
*Gino Cervi: Sergio
*Anna Magnani: Adele
*Luisa Poselli: Luciana
*Felice Romano: Carlo
*Ave Ninchi
*Aldo Silvani
*Olinto Cristina
Critical reception
The film was censored and then rediscovered in 2008. A man called Giancarlo Mancini found a bad Italian copy interspersed with fragments from a French edition in Ripley's Home Video. It has been described as a mediocre melodrama with obvious implausibilities in the plot and unsuited to Neufeld.
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