Devotion (1950 film)

1950 film

Devotion

Directed by| Augusto Genina
Written by|

* Vitaliano Brancati
* Augusto Genina

Based on| L'edera
1908 novel
by Grazia Deledda
Produced by| Carlo Civallero
Starring| Columba Domínguez
Roldano Lupi
Juan de Landa
Cinematography| Marco Scarpelli
Edited by| Elena Zanoli
Music by| Antonio Veretti
Distributed by| Cines

Release date

* 29 November 1950 (1950-11-29)

Running time

| 78 minutes
Country| Italy
Language| Italian

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.[1]

## Synopsis

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Annesa (played by Columba Dominguez), is from a declining aristocratic family and very much devoted to her family, the Decherchi, which is at the edge of financial collapse. The fate of the family depends on the success of their efforts to inherit the estate of a distant uncle who, is hosted by the Decherchis, because of his ill health and is now on the verge of dying. Annesa, exacerbated by the refusal of the uncle to help financially Annesa's financially strapped nephew Don Paulu Decherchi (played by Roldano Lupi), that she is secretly in love with, murders the uncle. Despite the suspicions and investigations by the police, the murder is not discovered. But Annesa, overcome by remorse, confesses her deed to a priest.

## Cast

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* Columba Domínguez: Annesa
* Roldano Lupi: Don Paulu Decherchi
* Juan de Landa: Virdis, il sacerdote
* Franca Marzi: Zana
* Emma Baron: Donna Francesca
* Nino Pavese: Salvatore Spanu
* Gualtiero Tumiati: Zio Zua

## Reception

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American film critic Howard Thompson wrote for The New York Times that the pairing of Columba Dominguez and Rolando Lupi "generate only mild conviction and, for that matter, precious little steam". He also dismissed Franca Marzi's performance as "vacuous". He complimented Gualtiero Tumiata as "turning in a good, gusty performance as the village priest".[2]

## References

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1. ^ Dagrada, Elena (November 2021). "Augusto Genina: Il Prezzo Della Bellezza". Journal of Film Preservation (105): 151–153\. ProQuest 2618812290.
2. ^ Thompson, Howard (31 January 1953). "Italian Film Bows at Cinema Verdi". The New York Times. p. 10.

## External links

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* Devotion at IMDb

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The films of Augusto Genina

* Goodbye Youth (1918)
* The Prince of the Impossible (1918)
* The Beautiful Wife (1924)
* The Hearth Turned Off (1925)
* The Last Lord (1926)
* Goodbye Youth (1927)
* The Prisoners of Shanghai (1927)
* The Story of a Little Parisian (1928)
* Scampolo (1928)
* Love's Masquerade (1928)
* Latin Quarter (1929)
* Miss Europe (1930)
* The Darling of Paris (1931)
* The Lovers of Midnight (1931)
* The Woman Dressed as a Man (1932)
* We Are Not Children (1934)
* Forget Me Not (1935)
* The White Squadron (1936)
* Flowers from Nice (1936)
* The Phantom Gondola (1936)
* The Kiss of Fire (1937)
* Woman's Love—Woman's Suffering (1937)
* Castles in the Air (1939)
* The Siege of the Alcazar (1940)
* Bengasi (1942)
* Heaven over the Marshes (1949)
* Devotion (1950)
* Three Forbidden Stories (1952)
* Maddalena (1954)
* Frou-Frou (1955)

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