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La Terra Trema
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7.86
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Antonio Arcidiacono. Narrators: Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli,
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Directed by:
Luchino Visconti 
Written by:
Luchino Visconti. From Giovanni Verga's novel I Malavoglia
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1948 |
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DRAMA
OVERRATED
FOREIGN
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Italy |
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160 |
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A Sicilian fisherman (Antonio Arcidiacono) and his family scrape an existence, despite exploitation by fish wholesalers and boat owners |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| | Documentary drama shot on location in Aci Trezza, Sicily. It does a good job of romanticising reality and the struggles of its characters, but the absence of a gripping narrative is noticeable. It won a special prize at Venice, supposedly for its "choral qualities and style", but actually - according to some eye-witnesses - for its politics. On release, it was a commercial disaster - not least because Italians found the characters' accents incomprehensible - and narration had to be added on later. | | |
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