Jealousy (1953 Italian film)

1953 film by Pietro Germi

Jealousy

Directed by	Pietro Germi
Written by	Giuseppe Mangione Giuseppe Berto Pietro Germi
Based on	Il Marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana
Produced by	Emimmo Salvi Mario Silvestri
Starring	Erno Crisa Marisa Belli Vincenzo Musolino
Cinematography	Leonida Barboni
Edited by	Rolando Benedetti
Music by	Carlo Rustichelli
Production company	Excelsa Film
Distributed by	Minerva Film
Release date	29 September 1953 (1953-09-29)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Jealousy (Italian: Gelosia) is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Pietro Germi and starring Erno Crisa, Marisa Belli and Vincenzo Musolino. It is based on the 1901 novel Il Marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana. It was shot on location around Belmonte Mezzagno in Sicily. The story had previously been made into a 1942 film of the same title.

Plot

At the church, Rocco, steward on the lands of a landowner, the Marquis of Roccaverdina, marries the beautiful peasant girl Agrippina. But he was shot twice. Justice arrests and condemns a certain Neli. In truth, the assassin is the marquis himself who had contracted a sham marriage with the young woman so that she would remain his mistress...

Cast

Erno Crisa as Baron Antonio
Marisa Belli as Agrippina
Alessandro Fersen as Don Silvio
Liliana Gerace as Countess Zosima
Vincenzo Musolino as Farmer Rocco
Grazia Spadaro as Mamma Grazia
Gustavo De Nardo as Neli Casaccio
Maresa Gallo as Santa
Pasquale Martino as Commissario
Renato Pinciroli as The Lawyer
Amedeo Trilli as Il maresciallo
Guido Medici as The Judge
Paola Borboni as Aunt Baroness
Loriana Varoli as Cristina
Giovanni Martella as Salvatore
Assunta Radico as Madre di Agrippina
Gustavo Serena as Doctor

References

Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
"Oeuvres | La Cinémathèque québécoise" (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-02.

External links

Jealousy at IMDb
Media related to Jealousy at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Pietro Germi filmography
Films directed	The Testimony (1946) Lost Youth (1947) In the Name of the Law (1949) Path of Hope (1950) Four Ways Out (1951) The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo (1952) Mademoiselle Gobete (1952) Jealousy (1953) Mid-Century Loves (segment "Guerra 1915—18", 1954) The Railroad Man (1956) A Man of Straw (1958) The Facts of Murder (1959) Divorce Italian Style (1961) Seduced and Abandoned (1964) The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966) L'immorale (1967) Serafino (1968) A Pocketful of Chestnuts (1970) Alfredo, Alfredo (1972)
Written only	The Ten Commandments (1945) Against the Law (1950) My Friends (1975)

Pietro Germi filmography

Films directed

The Testimony (1946)
Lost Youth (1947)
In the Name of the Law (1949)
Path of Hope (1950)
Four Ways Out (1951)
The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo (1952)
Mademoiselle Gobete (1952)
Jealousy (1953)
Mid-Century Loves (segment "Guerra 1915—18", 1954)
The Railroad Man (1956)
A Man of Straw (1958)
The Facts of Murder (1959)
Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
L'immorale (1967)
Serafino (1968)
A Pocketful of Chestnuts (1970)
Alfredo, Alfredo (1972)

Written only

The Ten Commandments (1945)
Against the Law (1950)
My Friends (1975)

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