''Un uomo ritorna'' (also known as ''Revenge'') is a
1946
Events January
* January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
* January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
Italian drama film directed by
Max Neufeld.
It was shown as part of a retrospective "Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato" at the
.
Plot
The film is set in April 1945. The engineer Sergio returns home to a town in
Lazio after five years as a prisoner of war. He finds his homeland ravaged. The minefields and hydroelectric power plant were the main sources of employment and they are both destroyed. His old mother and a brother are still there but his wife Adele is working in
Rome. Their son has been taken in a
fascist
Fascism is a far-right, Authoritarianism, authoritarian, ultranationalism, ultra-nationalist political Political ideology, ideology and Political movement, movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and pol ...
raid. When Adele learns the son has died she goes after revenge armed with a gun.
Cast
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Gino Cervi: Sergio
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Anna Magnani: Adele
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Luisa Poselli Luisa (Italian and Spanish), Luísa (Portuguese) or Louise (French) is a feminine given name; it is the feminine form of the given name Louis (Luis), the French form of the Frankish Chlodowig (German Ludwig), from the Germanic elements ''hlod'' ...
: Luciana
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Felice Romano Felice is a name that can be used as both a given name, masculine or feminine, and a surname. It is a common name in Italian, where it is equivalent to Felix. Notable people with the name include:
Given name Arts and literature Film and theater
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: Carlo
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Ave Ninchi
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Aldo Silvani
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Olinto Cristina
Critical reception
The film was censored and then rediscovered in 2008. A man called Giancarlo Mancini found a bad Italian copy interspersed with fragments from a French edition in Ripley's Home Video. It has been described as a mediocre melodrama with obvious implausibilities in the plot and unsuited to Neufeld.
References
External links
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1946 films
Italian drama films
Films directed by Max Neufeld
Italian black-and-white films
1946 drama films
1940s Italian films
Films scored by Carlo Innocenzi
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