Altura
Directed byMario Sequi
Written byPietro Lissia
Vinicio Marinucci
Mario Sequi
Ákos Tolnay
Bruno Valeri
Produced bySaverio D'Amico
Ákos Tolnay
StarringMassimo Girotti
Roldano Lupi
Eleonora Rossi Drago
CinematographyPiero Portalupi
Edited byMarcella Gengarelli
Music byEnnio Porrino
Production
company
PFI
Distributed byRegionale Distribuzione
Release date
1949
Running time
88 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Altura is a 1949 Italian crime melodrama film directed by Mario Sequi and starring Massimo Girotti, Roldano Lupi and Eleonora Rossi Drago. It is set in Sardinia and portrays a struggle between large landowners and a co-operative of shepherds.[1]

Cast

Plot

In Sardinia, Stanis, who had left the village years ago, returns and finds it in the hands of Barra, an evil man who dominates the milk market unchallenged. Joined in a cooperative with other shepherds, one day, Barra's henchmen attacked the truck bringing milk to markets in other countries. Forced to flee the country, his fiancée is courted more and more persistently by Barra. Still, Stanis returns and, thanks to a former employee, obtains evidence that Barra had the truck destroyed. After a long chase, Barra is killed.

Production

The film can be ascribed to the strand of sentimental melodramas, commonly called tearjerkers, then very much in vogue among Italian audiences, later renamed by critics as appendix neorealism.

It was registered with the Public Film Registry under No. 846. Submitted to the Cinematographic Review Board on April 6, 1950, it obtained censorship visa No. 7,714 on April 18, 1950, with a film length of 2,185 meters.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Urban p.453
  2. ↑ "Original censorship visa" (PDF). Italia Taglia.

Bibliography

  • Maria Bonaria Urban. Sardinia on Screen: The Construction of the Sardinian Character in Italian Cinema. Rodopi, 2013.


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