The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1953 film)

February 1953 (1953-02)

Running time

93 minutesCountryItalyLanguageItalian

The Blind Woman of Sorrento (Italian: La cieca di Sorrento) is a 1953 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and starring Antonella Lualdi, Paul Campbell and Enzo Biliotti.^[1] It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film is based on the novel of the same title by Francesco Mastriani and is the third time that it has been filmed. It is set in the nineteenth century in Sorrento in southern Italy.

Plot

In the 19th century, Naples was governed by the Bourbons. Doctor Pisani is a patriot who is unjustly accused of having killed a marquise. He does not want to betray the cause and allows himself to be executed. Ten years later, his son Oliviero, who has taken medical courses, restores the truth and wants to marry Béatrice, the Marquise's daughter, who became blind during the assault on her mother's castle by revolutionary patriots. Oliviero, having become an ophthalmologist, heals the girl and marries her.

Cast

Antonella Lualdi as Beatrice di Rionero
Paul Campbell as Oliviero Pisani
Enzo Biliotti as Ernesto Basileo, il notaio
Marilyn Buferd as Marchesina di Rionero
Charles Fawcett as Marchese di Rionero
Corrado Annicelli as Dottore Andrea Pisani
Vera Carmi as Elena Viscardi
Paul Muller as Carlo Basileo
Nuccia Aronne as Beatrice di Rionero, bambina
Michele Riccardini as Un congiurato
Giovanni Onorato as Altro congiurato
Maurizio Di Nardo as Oliviero, ragazzino
Giuliano Montaldo as Sacerdote
Sergio Bergonzelli
Carlo d'Elia
Giovanni Vari
Franco Marturano
Rina Dei
Patrizia Lari
Gianni Luda
Vittorio Braschi
Annette Ciarli
Carlo Hinterman
Anna Maini
Ina La Yana
Raffaele Caporilli

References

^ Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press, 2009. p.367.