La Terra Trema (1948)
- Original title
- La terra trema
- Directed by
- Franco Zeffirelli, Francesco Rosi, Luchino Visconti
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 2h 45m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 7.7 of 10 from 174 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
It follows poor Sicilian fishermen struggling against poverty and exploitation. The film uses non-professional actors to show their daily lives and hard choices.
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What happens
La Terra Trema (Italian pronunciation: [la ˈtɛrra ˈtrɛːma]; "The Earth Trembles") is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed, co-written, and produced by Luchino Visconti. A loose adaptation of the 1881 novel I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga, the film documents the economic and personal struggles of poor Sicilian fishermen. The film is docufictional, featuring a cast of non-professional actors and a mix of scripted and unscripted sequences. It is considered one of the essential films of the neorealist movement and was named one of the top ten films of all time in the 1962 Sight & Sound poll. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved which is a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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