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Vulcano

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Original title

Vulcano

Year

1950

Running time

105 min.

Country

Italy

Director

William Dieterle

Screenwriter

Piero Tellini, Victor Stolof, Mario Chiari

Cast

Music

Enzo Masetti

Cinematography

Arturo Gallea (B&W)

Producer

Co-production Italy-United States;

Panaria Film, United Artists

Genre

Drama | Fishing. Neorealism

Synopsis

Anna Magnani, a prostitute, is banished from Naples and returns to her home, a volcanic island off of southern Italy. There, she is accepted only by her younger sister and younger brother, and takes whatever job she can to get by. Rossano Brazzi, a diver by trade but a procuer for a prostitution ring---the white slave trade in those days---sets his cap for Anna's beautiful sister who has fallen in love with him. Anna sleeps with Brazzi to convince the sister he is bad news but the sister thinks otherwise. Later, on Brazzi's boat, Anna is pumping air to him while he is on an underwater dive and she resorts to the only course she has left to save her sister. She stops pumping. Feeling guilt and remorse she then climbs the island volcano as it begins erupting.

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Vulcano

1950

William Dieterle

6.2

(87)