La Terra Trema (1948)
La Terra Trema (1948)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5300 kbps | 6.8Gb
Audio: Italian AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subtitles: English
02:40:00 | Italy | Drama
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5300 kbps | 6.8Gb
Audio: Italian AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subtitles: English
02:40:00 | Italy | Drama
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Venera Bonaccorso, Nicola Castorino, Rosa Catalano, Rosa Costanzo, Alfio Fichera, Carmela Fichera, Rosario Galvagno, Agnese Giammona, Nelluccia Giammona, Giovanni Greco, Ignazio Maccarone, Giovanni Maiorana, Antonino Micale, Maria Micale, Concettina Mirabella, Angelo Morabito, Pasquale Pellegrino, Amilcare Pettinelli, Antonio Pietrangeli, Alfio Valastro, Antonino Valastro, Francesco Valastro, Lorenzo Valastro, Raimondo Valastro, Salvatore Valastro, Santo Valastro, Sebastiano Valastro, Giuseppe Vicari
In the poor Sicilian village of Aci Trezza the fisherman have been exploited for generations. Tired of the endless cycle of poverty, a young soldier returns home from war and convinces his family to strike out on their own. Tragically, his plan to change the system is met with a cruel blow that pushes them even further under water. Shot on location with non-professional actors, Luchino Visconti's haunting second film remains a masterpiece of Italian cinema as well as a 'landmark Neorealist work'
La Terra Trema (1948)
La Terra Trema (1948)
IMDb
Although it was supposed to be a documentary, Visconti put in a slight story line to achieve what a documentary would have done, AND MORE. –He used no professional actors, just native Sicilian fishermen, and other villagers, to play all parts. – The film uses no artificial lighting, no sound enhancement, sound-effects, or dubbing. – It was filmed on location in, and around, the crumbling homes of the poor villagers, and it was recorded in the Sicilian dialect (rather than proper Italian), and although it has a documentary "look", Visconti shows the exploitation of the poor by the capitalist middlemen so much more effectively than any documentary could have done.
– Also, while not the first neo-realist film of that post-war Italian genre, this was the first film to be described by the term: "neo-realist". –A brilliant film on all counts. I rated it "10".
~ cinema_universe
La Terra Trema (1948)
La Terra Trema (1948)
