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La Terra Trema (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
153 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Interactive Menu
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1948 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Luchino Visconti

Written By:
Antonio Pietrangeli (dialogue)
Antonio Pietrangeli (screenplay)

Actors:
Giuseppe Arcidiacono ..... Coca
Nicola Castorino ..... Nicola
Alfio Fichera ..... Michele
Ignazio Maccarone ..... Maccarone
Giovanni Maiorana ..... Un bambino
Antonio Pietrangeli ..... Narrator
Luchino Visconti ..... Narrator

Synopsis:

Based on director Luchino Visconti's vision of a peasant uprising, this haunting film details a Sicilian fishing village's battle to rebuild their post-war society in the face of an exploitative wholesaler. Visconti's purest excursion into neorealism and a masterpiece of post-war Italian cinema, La Terra Trema features striking location photography, an obscure Sicilian dialect, and an entire cast of non-professional actors. It vividly, and beautifully, captures the struggles of a real-life family facing economic abuse, and abuse from the forces of nature in the roiling Mediterranean seas having mortgaged their home to buy a boat and thus escape their poverty, the family lose everything when the boat is destroyed in a storm. Visconti said of the film: 'The story grew from day to day, following the more or less logical order of a scenario that was more often than not suggested to me by the actors themselves.'

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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