Devotion (1950)

Original title

L'edera

Directed by

Augusto Genina

Genre

drama film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 51m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a woman in rural Sardinia who is trapped by a family secret and a forbidden love. She struggles against poverty and her own desperate choices.

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What happens

Devotion (Italian: L'edera, "The Ivy") is a 1950 Italian melodrama film directed by Augusto Genina. The film is adapted from the famous Italian novel L'edera written by Grazia Deledda and published in 1908. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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