Tormento

Italy

1950

98 Min

Black and White

1.33:1

Italian

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Goffredo Lombardo, Raffaello Matarazzo

SCR Aldo De Benedetti, Libero Bovio, Gaspare Di Maio, Raffaello Matarazzo

CAST Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Annibale Betrone, Mario Ferrari, Teresa Franchini, Tina Lattanzi, Aldo Nicodemi, Giuditta Rissone, Vittorio Sanipoli, Roberto Murolo, Rosalia Randazzo

Anna (Yvonne Sanson) flees her home, where she has been victimized for years by her spineless father’s mean-spirited second wife, to be with her lover (Amedeo Nazzari), an honest businessman yet to make his fortune. When he is accused of a murder he didn’t commit, the couple’s domestic tranquillity is upended, and a desperate Anna must rely on her cruel stepmother to help support their child. –The Criterion Collection

Director

Raffaello Matarazzo

Raffaello Matarazzo (Rome, 17 August 1909 – Rome, 17 May 1966) was an Italian film-maker. He started writing film reviews for Roman newspaper Il Tevere before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films were comedies until he moved to melodrama genre and with Catene, produced by Titanus in 1949, he became the most successful Italian director. Audience loved his melodramas. Critics don’t, they said that Matarazzo made films Neorealismo d’appendice (neorealism wannabe). Lately the 70’s some film critics try to restore the lost Matarazzo’s fame. French magazine Positif loved his erotical – historical peplum Ship of Lost Women. —Wikipedia