“A Love Story” ( Italian: Una storia d'amore ) is a black and white melodrama directed by Mario Camerini shot in 1942 based on the novel “Life Begins” by American writer Mary MacDougal Axelson.
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| Una storia d'amore | |
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| Genre | melodrama |
| Producer | Mario Camerini |
| Producer | Giampaolo Bigazzi |
| Author script | Mario Camerini Gaspare Cataldo, Giulio Morelli Mario Pannunzio Gino Vicentini |
| In the main cast | Asya Noris , Pierrot Lulli |
| Operator | Arturo Halley |
| Composer | Fernando Previtali |
| Film company | Lux film |
| Duration | 88 minutes |
| A country |  Italy |
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| Year | 1942 |
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Story
One day, Gianni, an honest and modest guy, meets Anna, a girl with a dubious past. However, he does not ask about her past, he is in love with her, such as she is, today's, present. And in the present she is sweet, beautiful, respectable and hardworking. Despite some financial difficulties, they are happy in marriage, Anna is preparing to become a mother ...
However, the past still overtakes her. A villain, aware of the secret of her life and wanting to possess a poor woman, blackmails Anna. In a state of affect, she kills him. She is sentenced to ten years in prison, and in prison she gives birth to a girl. During a difficult birth, Anna dies, leaving her husband a child as the fruit of their unhappy love.
Cast
- Asya Noris - Anna Roberti
- Piero Lulli - Gianni Castelli
- - Agostino
- Guido Notari - Mr. Federico Ferreri
- Dia Cristiani - Clara
- Emma Baron - nurse at the clinic
- Antonio Battistella - Enrico Banducci, Witness
- Marcello Mastroianni - episode (uncredited)
About the movie
The film, presented in the 1942 Venice Film Festival competition, is a variation on the theme of the novel "Life Begins" by American writer Mary MacDougal Axelson, previously filmed in Hollywood twice already: in 1932, "Life Begins" with Loretta Young in the title role, and in 1939 - “Birth of a child” with Geraldine Fitzgerald .
This was the first attempt to revive as a dramatic actress Asyu Noris , whose name is inextricably linked with the comedies of Camerini in the 1930s . And although Asya Noris coped with the role perfectly, nevertheless, the popularity of the actress in this period was already in decline, and in the post-war years she would completely leave the cinema, giving way to new names that came in the wake of neorealistic paintings.
Nominations
- Nomination for the “Mussollini Cup” at the International Film Festival in Venice ( 1942 ) [1] .
Notes
Links
- The Story of One Love on the Internet Movie Database
Literature
- “Director's Encyclopedia. Cinema of Europe ”, Comp. M.M. Chernenko ; Repl. ed. G.N. Kompanichenko, Scientific researcher Institute of Motion Picture Arts.-M.: Mainland, 2002, (article about Mario Camerini) ISBN 5-85646-077-4
- Moliterno, Gino, Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema, Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth, The Scarecrow Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8108-6073-5