''Madunnella'' is a 1948 Italian

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directed by

Ernesto Grassi Ernesto Grassi (2 May 1902 – 22 December 1991) was an Italian philosopher. Life He maintained an intimate friendship with Donald Phillip Verene. Thought Grassi sought to take up the Heideggerean ''Destruktion'' of metaphysics, grounding hi ...

and starring Edmea Lari, Aldo Bufi Landi and

Rino Genovese Rino Genovese (1905–1967) was an Italian film actor.Pruzzo & Lancia p.129 Selected filmography * '' Naples of Former Days'' (1938) * '' Malaspina'' (1947) * '' Madunnella'' (1948) * ''The City Stands Trial'' (1952) * ''Perdonami!'' (1953) * '' ...

.Caldiron p.88

Plot

A respectable clerk from

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

becomes mixed up in embezzlement and smuggling in order to pay for his daughter's wedding.

Cast

* Edmea Lari as Maria, detta 'a Madunnella' * Aldo Bufi Landi as Mario *

as Michele il contrabbandiere * Ugo D'Alessio as Il ragionere, padre di Maria *

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Alberto Amato Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albertin ...

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References

Bibliography

* Caldiron, Orio. ''La bella compagnia''. Bulzoni, 2009.

External links

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