''For the Love of Mariastella'' ( it, 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
San Vito Lo Capo ( scn, Santu Vitu) is a town and ''comune'' in North-Western Sicily, Italy, administratively part of the province of Trapani. The small town is located in a valley between mountains, and is home to a public beach that is destin ...
.
It is considered as a progenitor of
pink neorealism
Pink is the color of a namesake flower that is a pale tint of red. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, politeness, ...
.
Cast
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Otello Toso
Otello Toso (22 February 1914 – 15 March 1966) was an Italian film and stage actor.
Born in Padua, Toso graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1939 and immediately later he started his film career. He was particularly pro ...
as Turi della Tonnara, aka 'Malacarne'
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Mariella Lotti as Mariastella
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Amedeo Nazzari as Zù Bastiano
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Umberto Spadaro as Fifi the Hunchback
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Giovanni Grasso jr. Giovanni may refer to:
* Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname
* Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data
* ''Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of ...
as Raìs Pietro
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Natale Cirino as the Trapanese
* Anna Silena as Maruzza
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Carlo Sposito as Rosalino
* Rosetta Romano as Donna Agatina
* Salvatore Chimenti as Don Papò
References
External links
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1946 films
Italian drama films
1946 drama films
Films directed by Pino Mercanti
Italian black-and-white films
Melodrama films
1940s Italian films
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