Tripti Joshi (Editor)

For the Love of Mariastella

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
8
/
10
1
Votes
Alchetron
8
1 Ratings
100
90
81
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Rate This

Rate This

Language
  
Italian

Director
  
Pino Mercanti

For the Love of Mariastella For the Love of Mariastella Wikipedia

Release date
  
1946 (1946)

For the Love of Mariastella (Italian: Malacarne, also known as Turi della tonnara) is a 1946 Italian melodrama film written and directed by Pino Mercanti. Based on a story of the Sicilian writer Giuseppe Zucca, it was mainly shot in the tonnara of Castellammare del Golfo, with some scenes shot in the tonnaras of Scopello and of San Vito Lo Capo. It is considered as a progenitor of pink neorealism. .

Cast

  • Otello Toso as Turi della Tonnara, aka 'Malacarne'
  • Mariella Lotti as Mariastella
  • Amedeo Nazzari as Zù Bastiano
  • Umberto Spadaro as Fifi the Hunchback
  • Giovanni Grasso jr. as Raìs Pietro
  • Natale Cirino as the Trapanese
  • Anna Silena as Maruzza
  • Carlo Sposito as Rosalino
  • Rosetta Romano as Donna Agatina
  • Salvatore Chimenti as Don Papò

    • References

    For the Love of Mariastella Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    For the Love of Mariastella IMDb