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PIA DEI TOLOMEI

1941, regia di Esodo Pratelli

Scheda: Nazione: Italia - Produzione: Manderfilm - Distribuzione: Manderfilm - Soggetto (dall'episodio della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri): Luigi Bonelli - Sceneggiatura: Luigi Pratelli, Guglielmo Usellini - Fotografia: Arturo Gallea - Scenografie: Virgilio Marchi - Musiche: Francesco Mander - Formato: B.N. - Durata: 78'.

Cast: Cesco Baseggio, Nino Crisman, Gemma D'Alba, Germana Paolieri, Daniella Drei, Lauro Gazzolo, Carlo Tamberlani, Emilio Baldanello, Luigi A. Garrone, Alma Guerrini, Achille Majeroni, Antonio Marietti, Dina Perbellini, Michele Riccardini, Carlo Romano, Nando Tamberlani, Amedeo Trilli, Saro Urzì.

«Accusata ingiustamente di adulterio, Pia viene rinchiusa dal marito nella torre di un castello della campagna maremmana, da dove precipiterà, cercando volontariamente la morte, per sfuggire a colui che l’ha accusata e che l’ha raggiunta nella sua prigione» (Vito Attolini).

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Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb: «Poor Pia, a woman from Siena of the Middle Ages, is a long-suffering wife wrongly accused by a Iago-like friend of her husband's that she has been unfaithful to him. The villain craves the woman for himself, of course, and had been rejected in a courtship before Pia's marriage. Locked up in a castle in the Maremma district of Tuscany, things get worse for her until, in resisting the advances of her chaser, she is knocked out of the castle window and later dies, but not before her husband realizes the truth of it all and rushes to her to beg forgiveness. Much of the action is commented upon by what could be called a Greek chorus of local peasant women and retainers. Germana Paolieri as Pia pulls out all the stops and is quite moving in what is essentially a sentimental weepie. The photography by Arturo Gallea is a plus, with both exteriors and interiors of the period nicely rendered. Director Esodo Pradelli does a decent job with the performers. Reference to the sad story of Pia is made by Dante in his Purgatorio. There she is to spend time among those who died by violence without last rites. In Canto V she speaks to pilgrim Dante: "...oh speak my name again with living breath to living memory. Pia am I. Siena gave me birth; Maremma, death"» (Gerald A. DeLuca, John Ciardi translation).

Conosciuto anche con il titolo: Pia of Ptolomey.

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