Marina Berti

Marina Berti

Born: September 29, 1924
Died: October 29, 2002
in London, England, UK
Elena Maureen Bertolini, known as Marina Berti, (29 September 1924 – 29 October 2002) was an English-born Italian film actress.

Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, La Fuggitiva in 1941. She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films both Italian and American. Her appearances include Quo Vadis (1951), Abdulla the Great (1955), Ben Hur (1959), Cleopatra (1963), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974), Night Train Murders (1975), and the TV miniseries' Moses the Lawgiver (1975) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977). Her last film appearance was in the Costa-Gavras film Amen. in 2002. [Wikipedia]

Movies for Marina Berti...

Amen.
Title: Amen.
Character: La Principessa
Released: February 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
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Title: Schloß Hohenstein - Irrwege zum Glück
Character: Fürstin Federica di Veneria
Released: December 29, 1992
Type: TV
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Stubborn Fate
Title: Stubborn Fate
Character: Eva Meyer
Released: May 28, 1992
Type: Movie
Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.
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La posta in gioco
Title: La posta in gioco
Character: Luigina, la moglie di Bellomo
Released: March 8, 1988
Type: Movie
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L'ultima mazurka
Title: L'ultima mazurka
Character: Signora in treno
Released: October 25, 1986
Type: Movie
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The Repenter
Title: The Repenter
Released: November 15, 1985
Type: Movie
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
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Embassy
Title: Embassy
Character: Marina
Released: April 21, 1985
Type: Movie
US ambassador in Rome must protect US interests and secrets from mob, spies and curious girlfriends who may be more than what they seem.
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A Spiral of Mist
Title: A Spiral of Mist
Character: Costanza Sangermano
Released: September 8, 1977
Type: Movie
The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marriage is contrasted by the passionate Valeria, who is killed during a chase. Is Valeria's husband the murderer? Maria Teresa helps him..
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Title: Jesus of Nazareth
Character: Elizabeth
Released: March 27, 1977
Type: TV
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
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Don Milani
Title: Don Milani
Released: April 23, 1976
Type: Movie
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The Red Carnation
Title: The Red Carnation
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Our hero is the 18-year-old Alessio Mainardi, who receives a token red carnation from a girl named Giovanna and becomes a symbol of love, desire, and even has political overtones as a symbol of the struggle for political freedom in opposition to Fascism.
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The Divine Nymph
Title: The Divine Nymph
Character: Zia di Manuela
Released: October 16, 1975
Type: Movie
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
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Late Night Trains
Title: Late Night Trains
Character: Laura Stradi
Released: April 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.
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Moses the Lawgiver
Title: Moses the Lawgiver
Character: Eliseba
Released: December 22, 1974
Type: Movie
The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Title: What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Character: Mrs. Polvesi
Released: August 10, 1974
Type: Movie
An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. It transpires that a private detective, Ruggero Pollente, was hired by Silvia's mother because the latter was concerned about her activities. As a conspiracy begins to emerge, Pollente's body is found dismembered and his girlfriend is subsequently attacked by a machete-wielding killer clad in motorcycle gear...
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Title: Moses the Lawgiver
Character: Eliseba
Released: July 4, 1974
Type: TV
A biopic of Moses, who led the Jewish people out of Egypt, ex. by parting the Red Sea and afterwards delivered the Ten Commandments from God.
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Buona parte di Paolina
Title: Buona parte di Paolina
Released: April 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Paulina, sister of Napoleon I, is married to Camillo Borghese, presented as a helpless coward. She is eager to offer herself to all the young people that propose to her, and performs naked in front of the Roman people flocking to the walls of Villa Borghese, which she turned into a private residence. She also poses half naked for the famous statue of Canova, who is also presented as a effeminate and scoundrel. When her reputation as a depraved spreads, on the advice of the Pope, she is segregated away from all the men. when the French troops deport from Rome the Pope and the cardinals as well, Paulina sees prostitution as the only way to find herself some "fresh meat". Finally after seven years villa Borghese is reopened to the public, as Paulina goes back to Paris, to the great relief of the Roman people and the clerical circles.
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Planet Venus
Title: Planet Venus
Released: August 27, 1972
Type: Movie
Matteo is a communist intellectual, the son of a wealthy bourgeois, who found himself blind from an eye after the war. One day in the streets of Rome he meets Amelia, a child suffocated by the bourgeois environment.
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Tre nel mille
Title: Tre nel mille
Released: March 6, 1971
Type: Movie
A few days after the arrival of the year 1000, bearer of great misfortune according to the Prophets, the cavalryman Fortunato and two soldiers, Pannocchia and Carestia, travel through Italy in the midst of numerous adventures: The prophetic year is marked only by the discovery on the part of the cavalryman of his wife's betrayal
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Lady Caliph
Title: Lady Caliph
Character: Clementine Doberdò
Released: December 31, 1970
Type: Movie
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
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Safety Catch
Title: Safety Catch
Character: La soeur d'Alberta
Released: April 7, 1970
Type: Movie
A doctor disbarred for euthanasia is called in by a man to help his son, who has been depressed since the suicide of his partner. But in the dead woman's handbag, an undeveloped film is discovered by the doctor, who decides to investigate the young woman's alleged suicide.
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Hate Is My God
Title: Hate Is My God
Character: Blanche Durand
Released: May 23, 1969
Type: Movie
A young man returns to his village, and with the help of a black-clad stranger, seeks revenge for the murder of his brother against three men who are now notable men of the town.
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Title: If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Character: Gina
Released: April 24, 1969
Type: Movie
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
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Title: Nero Wolfe
Character: Callie Frost
Released: February 21, 1969
Type: TV
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Temptation
Title: Temptation
Released: January 29, 1969
Type: Movie
The young architect Guido maintains a relationship with Carla, wife of industrialist Veraldi that despite being aware of her infidelity does nothing to prevent it.
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Sergio's Mother
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Rebellious teen Sergio decides to isolate himself from society by living near the shore of a desolate lake. But he's unable to live freely once police show up and accuse him of murdering a young girl he was briefly acquainted with. This psychological drama with giallo elements appears to have been out of circulation since its theatrical run.
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Title: The Odyssey
Character: Arete
Released: March 24, 1968
Type: TV
Italian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.
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The Stranger Returns
Title: The Stranger Returns
Character: Ethel
Released: August 17, 1967
Type: Movie
The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
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Every Man Is My Enemy
Title: Every Man Is My Enemy
Character: Anna
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him...
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An Angel for Satan
Title: An Angel for Satan
Character: Ilda, the Housekeeper
Released: May 4, 1966
Type: Movie
At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction.
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Made in Italy
Title: Made in Italy
Character: Bored Diner (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 1")
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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Monsieur
Title: Monsieur
Character: Madame Danoni
Released: April 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Désespéré par la mort de sa femme, le banquier René Duchesne se promène le long de la Seine. Seule la rencontre de Suzanne, son ancienne femme de chambre lui révélant les infidélités de Madame, le sauve du suicide. Monsieur décide alors d'aider sa protégée à sortir de la prostitution, et d'empêcher ses beaux-parents de faire main basse sur l'héritage.
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A Face in the Rain
Title: A Face in the Rain
Character: Anna
Released: March 31, 1963
Type: Movie
An American spy hides in an apartment. But the woman who lives there is herself the mistress of a German Officer.
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The Swordsman of Siena
Title: The Swordsman of Siena
Character: Countess of Osta
Released: October 19, 1962
Type: Movie
A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.
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Damon and Pythias
Title: Damon and Pythias
Character: Mereka - Nerissa's Friend
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
Damon is a thief who begins to question his beliefs after he meets Pythias, a liberal Athenian who believes all men are brothers.
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Jessica
Title: Jessica
Character: Filippella Risino
Released: April 19, 1962
Type: Movie
When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse.
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Madame
Title: Madame
Character: Elisa Bonaparte
Released: December 21, 1961
Type: Movie
Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
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Ben-Hur
Title: Ben-Hur
Character: Flavia (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1959
Type: Movie
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
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Il cavaliere dalla spada nera
Title: Il cavaliere dalla spada nera
Character: Contessa Laura
Released: October 13, 1956
Type: Movie
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Il canto dell'emigrante
Title: Il canto dell'emigrante
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An Italian singer who found fame in America comes back to his native country and finds out that his former girlfriend is in prison.
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Operazione Mitra
Title: Operazione Mitra
Character: Marisa Rossi
Released: February 23, 1955
Type: Movie
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Abdullah's Harem
Title: Abdullah's Harem
Character: Aziza
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.
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Casta diva
Title: Casta diva
Character: Beatrice Turina
Released: December 27, 1954
Type: Movie
As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
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Knights of the Queen
Title: Knights of the Queen
Character: Jacqueline Planchet
Released: December 24, 1954
Type: Movie
A new adventure for the Dumas musketeers who this time must save the Infanta of Spain from the intrigues of the Prince of Condé who wants to take the throne at any cost. (This film is a compendium edit made from episodes of the television series "I tre moschettieri")
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At the Edge of the City
Title: At the Edge of the City
Character: Luisa
Released: October 16, 1953
Type: Movie
Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.
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Eager to Live
Title: Eager to Live
Character: Lucia
Released: April 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Massimo pretends to be rich but he's actually poor.
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The Queen of Sheba
Title: The Queen of Sheba
Character: Zamira, betrothed of Rehoboam
Released: November 6, 1952
Type: Movie
The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
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Red Love
Title: Red Love
Character: Marianna Cossu
Released: September 13, 1952
Type: Movie
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Quo Vadis
Title: Quo Vadis
Character: Eunice
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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Il capitano nero
Title: Il capitano nero
Character: Barbara Vivaldi
Released: March 15, 1951
Type: Movie
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Up Front
Title: Up Front
Character: Emi Rosso
Released: March 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of soldiers "Willie" and "Joe".
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Il sentiero dell'odio
Title: Il sentiero dell'odio
Character: Bella Pietramala
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
A love story along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, set in Calabria: two young lovers belong to two families who have always been enemies of each other.
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Cuori sul mare
Title: Cuori sul mare
Released: November 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress.
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Deported
Title: Deported
Character: Gina Carapia
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
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The Sky is Red
Title: The Sky is Red
Character: Carla
Released: March 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone in the world he meets Tullio, a disbanded boy who lives in an abandoned area with some girls, Carla, an eighteen year old girl who works as a prostitute, Giulia, younger and sick of tuberculosis, and a girl, Maria.
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Prince of Foxes
Title: Prince of Foxes
Character: Angela Borgia
Released: November 11, 1949
Type: Movie
In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte, and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...
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Sicilian Uprising
Title: Sicilian Uprising
Character: Laura
Released: October 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi.
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The Earth Cries Out
Title: The Earth Cries Out
Character: Dina
Released: August 30, 1949
Type: Movie
Two Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following World War II.
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Sinfonia fatale
Title: Sinfonia fatale
Character: Mirella
Released: May 1, 1947
Type: Movie
An American composer moves to Italy and falls for a local country girl right before the start of World War II.
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Notte di tempesta
Title: Notte di tempesta
Character: Caterina
Released: June 12, 1946
Type: Movie
The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another man who however secretly lusts after his stepdaughter until when, on a stormy night...
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The Testimony
Title: The Testimony
Character: Linda
Released: February 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace of mind.
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Preludio d'amore
Title: Preludio d'amore
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
After returning from the war Davide, a fisherman from Liguria, discovers that his girl Anna has been courted and compromised by a sailor named Rocco. Rocco’s other girl, Tea, takes revenge by denouncing him to the police. In remorse she commits suicide by drowning herself.
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The Gate of Heaven
Title: The Gate of Heaven
Character: The nurse
Released: February 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.
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I dieci comandamenti
Title: I dieci comandamenti
Released: January 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Ten episodes, one for each of the Ten Commandments. Lost film.
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Woman of the Mountains
Title: Woman of the Mountains
Character: Zosi
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he’d had such happy days with his fiance, leaving his young bride distraught.
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La valle del diavolo
Title: La valle del diavolo
Character: Greta
Released: April 6, 1943
Type: Movie
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Giacomo l'idealista
Title: Giacomo l'idealista
Character: Celestina
Released: February 1, 1943
Type: Movie
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Divieto di sosta
Title: Divieto di sosta
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A wealthy widow becomes infatuated with an adventurer posing as a poet and, forgetting her responsibilities as a mother and her no longer young age, falls prey to a love frenzy in her family that puts her at odds with her daughter, who has just left boarding school, and her own brother, who is all about scientific research. The girl, who has learned of the alleged poet's less-than-honest intentions, tries every means to drive him away and restore her mother's sentimental balance. For this she pretends to be in love with him who, attracted by her youth and rich dowry, proposes that she elope.
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La fuggitiva
Title: La fuggitiva
Character: Lucia
Released: November 2, 1941
Type: Movie
In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is a paragon of sacrifice and self-abnegation. La Fuggitiva is also a film in which a child actress takes a prominent role. In this sentimental drama, the little girl suffers for and rebels against the loneliness and neglect stemming from the lack of a mother and a loving family setting.