Guai ai vinti

Guai ai vinti
Directed by Raffaello Matarazzo
Written by Achille Campanile
Raffaello Matarazzo
Mario Monicelli
Piero Pierotti
Giovanna Soria
Music by Carlo Franci
Renzo Rossellini
Cinematography Tino Santoni
Edited by Mario Serandrei

Guai ai vinti (Woe to the Vanquished Ones) is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It is based on the novel Vae Victis by Annie Vivanti.[1][2]

Plot

During the First World War the Italian front at Caporetto is overwhelmed by an attack of adverse troops. Luisa and her sister Clara remain in their villa, prisoners of the Austrians. They are forced to undergo all sorts of violence, so that Mirella, the little daughter of Luisa, lost the use of the word following the trauma.

Cast

References

  1. Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
  2. Emiliano Morreale. Così piangevano: il cinema melò nell'Italia degli anni Cinquanta. Donzelli Editore, 2011. ISBN 8860365821.

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