''Torment'' (Italian: ''Tormento'') is a 1950 Italian

melodrama film A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue that is often bombastic or exces ...

directed by

Raffaello Matarazzo Raffaello Matarazzo (17 August 1909 – 17 May 1966) was an Italian filmmaker. Life Matarazzo started writing film reviews for the Roman newspaper ''Il Tevere'' before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films w ...

and starring

Amedeo Nazzari Amedeo Nazzari (10 December 1907 in Cagliari – 5 November 1979 in Rome) was an Italian actor. Nazzari was one of the leading figures of Italian classic cinema, often considered a local variant of the Australian–American star Errol Flynn. Al ...

Yvonne Sanson Yvonne Sanson ( el, Υβόν Σανσόν; 29 August 1925 – 23 July 2003) was a Greek-Italian film actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1946 and 1972, mainly working in Italy. Born in Thessaloniki, Sanson was a naturalised Italian cit ...

and

Annibale Betrone Annibale Betrone (1883–1950) was an Italian stage and film actor.Goble p.34 Selected filmography * '' Black Shirt'' (1933) * '' Villafranca'' (1934) * '' Teresa Venerdì'' (1941) * ''Piccolo mondo antico'' (1941) * ''Fedora'' (1942) * ''Torrent ...

.Bayman p.10 The film's sets were designed by

Ottavio Scotti Ottavio Scotti (1904–1975) was an Italian art director. Scotti was born in Umago, which was then part of Italy but is today in Croatia. He worked on more than a hundred films during his career, including Orson Welles's ''Black Magic'' which wa ...

. It was part of a group of popular melodramas featuring Nazzari and Sanson that were released in the post-war years.

Cast

as Carlo Guarnieri *

as Anna Ferrari *

as Gaetano Ferrari *

Mario Ferrari Mario Ferrari (September 3, 1894 – June 28, 1974) was an Italian film actor. After making his debut in 1920, Ferrari became a mainstay of Italian cinema during the Fascist era appearing in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He pla ...

as L'avvocato Bianchi *

Teresa Franchini Teresa Franchini (19 September 1877 – 11 August 1972) was an Italian stage and film actress. She was a leading lady of the theatre in her youth, appearing in the first Italian staging of Oscar Wilde's '' Lady Windermere's Fan'' in 1905. Beginni ...

as Rosina *

Tina Lattanzi Tina Lattanzi (born Annunziata Concetta Costantini; 5 December 1897 – 25 October 1997) was an Italian actress and voice actress. Biography A native of Licenza and the daughter of Ercole Costantini and Geltrude Montori, Lattanzi began her acting ...

as Matilde Ferrari *

Aldo Nicodemi Aldo Nicodemi (1919–1963) was an Italian film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, ra ...

as Ruffini *

Giuditta Rissone Giuditta Rissone (10 March 1895 – 22 June 1977) was an Italian film actress who appeared in 25 films between 1933 and 1966. She was born in Genoa and died in Rome. Giuditta Rissone married the director and actor Vittorio De Sica in 1937 in ...

as Madre Celeste *

Vittorio Sanipoli Vittorio Sanipoli (1915–1992) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. He appeared in around a hundred films and television series between 1942 and 1980. Life and career Born Luciano Sanipoli in Genoa, he made his acting debut in 1939 ...

as Rossi, un socio di Carlo *

Roberto Murolo Roberto Murolo (19 January 1912 – 13 March 2003) was an Italian musician. Career Born in Naples, Italy as the son of poet Ernesto Murolo and Lia Cavalli, Murolo showed a began singing and playing the guitar as a child. Murolo won the Itali ...

as Enzo Sandri *

Rosalia Randazzo Rosalia or Rosalía (with diacritic) may refer to: Persons * Saint Rosalia (1130–1166), the patron saint of Palermo in Italy * Rosalia (given name) * Rosalía (born 1992), Spanish singer Places * 314 Rosalia, an asteroid * Rosalia, Pisidia, ...

as Pinuccia *

Rita Livesi Rita Livesi (born 1915) is an Italian stage and film actress. She is known for Amore amaro (1974), Il berretto a sonagli (1985) and La ragazza del vagone letto (1979). Selected filmography * '' Cavalry'' (1936) * '' Adam's Tree'' (1936) * '' ...

References

Bibliography

* Bayman, Louis. ''The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama''. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

External links

* 1952 films Italian drama films 1952 drama films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Raffaello Matarazzo Films set in Naples Melodrama films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub