La Terra Trema
1948 · 165 min · dir. Franco Zeffirelli, Francesco Rosi, Luchino Visconti
La Terra Trema is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed, co-written, and produced by Luchino Visconti. A loose adaptation of the 1881 novel I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga, the film documents the economic and personal struggles of poor Sicilian fishermen. The film is docufictional, featuring a cast of non-professional actors and a mix of scripted and unscripted sequences. It is considered one of the essential films of the neorealist movement and was named one of the top ten films of all time in the 1962 Sight & Sound poll. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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