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Francesco Dominici has just returned from the front, fought for three years and was a prisoner for another three years.Francesco Dominici has just returned from the front, fought for three years and was a prisoner for another three years.Francesco Dominici has just returned from the front, fought for three years and was a prisoner for another three years.
Lucia Bosè
- Lucia Silvestri
- (as Lucia Bosé)
Pietro Tordi
- L'avvocato Gaetano Bertarelli
- (as Piero Tordi)
Giuseppe De Santis
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSilvana Mangano was initially chosen as the leading lady for the film (she had signed a contract with Lux Film for the sum of one million lire), but was forced to abandon the project because she was pregnant at the time.
- ConnectionsEdited into Giuseppe De Santis (2007)
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Director Giuseppe De Santis, a committed leftist, was apparently stung by criticism which he received from the Communist Party for the commercial compromises he had made on Bitter Rice, and he resolved to make a properly socialist realist film for his next project. Of course, he ended up making an ITALIAN socialist realist film. Both the characters and the situations are intentionally two-dimensional and archetypal, but everyone throws themselves into it with such passion and emotional conviction that the result is hugely operatic and occasionally mesmerizing.
Lucia Bose, in her first role (immediately before Antonioni starred her in Cronaca di un Amore), is ravishing and almost convincing as a peasant girl forced to her disgust to marry the sadistic local land-owner while her true love must hide in the mountains trying to rustle sheep. Plus, De Santis was clearly intrigued by Hollywood westerns and he repeatedly sets up strikingly archetypal western scenes. I suspect Sergio Leone was inspired by this film when he started the whole spaghetti western craze a decade later, but No Peace Under the Olives plays at a different level altogether.
Lucia Bose, in her first role (immediately before Antonioni starred her in Cronaca di un Amore), is ravishing and almost convincing as a peasant girl forced to her disgust to marry the sadistic local land-owner while her true love must hide in the mountains trying to rustle sheep. Plus, De Santis was clearly intrigued by Hollywood westerns and he repeatedly sets up strikingly archetypal western scenes. I suspect Sergio Leone was inspired by this film when he started the whole spaghetti western craze a decade later, but No Peace Under the Olives plays at a different level altogether.
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- Nema mira medju maslinama
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- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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