Chains (1950)
- Original title
- Catene
- Directed by
- Raffaello Matarazzo
- Genre
- drama film, melodrama
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Rated
- T
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 28 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A married woman is blackmailed by a former lover. Her husband becomes entangled in a violent conflict that threatens to destroy their family.
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What happens
Catene (internationally released as Chains) is a 1949 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It had an impressive commercial success, being seen by 6 million people, one in eight Italians of the time, and was followed by a series of six other successful films directed by Matarazzo and featuring the couple Amedeo Nazzari and Yvonne Sanson. The film was remade in 1974. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti. The film was featured in Cinema Paradiso (1988). In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." Maligned by critics because it did not conform to precepts of neorealism, this did not prevent its unexpected box office success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Fighting Men (1950)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.