Heaven Over the Marshes
Heaven Over the Marshes

Heaven Over the Marshes

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1949
1h 51m
6.2(6 votes)
Drama

Overview

Unlike most Italian films of the 1940s, Augusto Genina's Cielo Sulla Palude opened in Venice rather than Rome. The film's American title was Heaven Over the Marshes, and indeed most of the story is set in the disease-ridden Pontine Marshes on the outskirts of Rome. This was the home of Maria Goretti, a pious young girl who was murdered by her would-be seducer. For reasons elucidated in the course of the film, Maria's short time on earth made her worthy of Sainthood, which was actually bestowed upon her shortly after the release of this film. Maria Goretti is well-played by Ines Orsini. Cielo Sulla Palude served as the comeback feature for director Augusto Genina, whose previous pro-fascist films had caused him to be blacklisted after WW II.

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Inés Orsini

Maria Goretti

Inés Orsini
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Giovanni Martella

Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria

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Mauro Matteucci

Alessandro Serenelli

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Rubi D'Alma

La contessa Teneroni

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Michele Malaspina

Il conte

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Domenico Viglione Borghese

Il dottore (as D. Viglione Borghese)

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Assunta Radico

Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria

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Francesco Tomalillo

Giovanni Serenelli - il padre di Serenelli

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María Luisa Landín

Lucia

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Ida Paoloni

Teresa

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Federico Meloni

Angelo

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Jole Savoretti

Anna

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Giovanni Sestili

Mariano

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Vincenzo Solfiotti

Antonio

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