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E' la storia di una famiglia di pescatori siciliani, sfruttati nella loro miseria dai commercianti grossisti. Decisi a lottare contro l'oppressione, ipotecano la casa per comperare una barca e lavorare in proprio. Ma anche gli elementi sono avversi, in una notte di tempesta, la barca si rovina. Perduta la casa, la famiglia si disgrega, i miseri si riducono ad una condizione di vita anche peggiore, e devono riprendere l'ingrato lavoro, subendo, senza piu' speranza, quello che a loro appare un destino ineluttabile.
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A hugely moving film which works on every level - as a documentary, social commentary and as a tragic fable about an individual's misfortunes. I was interested to learn that the film was also inspired by the short story "I Malavoglia" by Giovanni Verga. Visconti's second film is unashamedly political but not polemic. It seems to spring from a tremendous compassion rather than tremulous anger.
The way the director concentrates on an entire community as well as an individual in it (Antonio) is a master-class in cinematic technique. Whole panoramas of village life are shown through the subtle thread of individuals' perceptions (the boy wandering through the quayside fish market, for example) and the flavour and mood of this merciless Sicilian village prints itself on every scene.
The sea, which determines the entire community's fate, is subtly ever-present throughout La Terra Trema through sound and rhythm. If the film feels a little ponderous at times it is because, Visconti suggests, this place has a (sometimes hostile) rhythm of its own.
The fact that La Terra Trema is rarely shown and difficult to get hold of is unbelievable; it's widely regarded as the first Neorealist film and has influenced two generations of artists. Significantly, Francesco Rosi and Franco Zeffirelli were the two assistants.
Once you see it, you won't forget it.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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For many of us, Luchino Visconti is the lush, almost operatic director of masterpieces like "Death in Venice" and "The Leopard". Yet, at the beginning of his career, he was an important figure in the Italian neo-realist movement. "La Terra Trema" is one of the best examples of this school. In a fascinating book about Italian cinema, the academic Stefania Parigi has written an insightful essay about the film's use of language. Visconti, with the aid of a young Franco Zeffirelli, mixed voice-over narration in Italian with the dialogue of his nonprofessional cast, who spoke in Sicilian dialect. There was a good reason for this; as the film's opening caption says, "Italian is not the language of the poor" (I quote, or misquote, this from memory). The result is a powerful and bleak film, which manages not to be depressing, perhaps because its political commitment and its admiration of its subjects is so intense and alive. In political terms, Visconti was something of a paradox; he was a fervent Marxist was also a very rich aristocrat. Perhaps this tension gives an added energy to "La Terra Trema". Whatever the case, it is a remarkable piece of work, a poem to the hardship of life and to human endurance.
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By Jason Parkes
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La Terra Trema, despite being a commercial failure in Italy , remains an interesting work of cinema- somewhere between the school of ITalian-Neo-Realism and the individuality of Visconti (many Italian directors have a similar individuality- Fellini, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Antonioni etc). It does seem willfully perverse- Visconti focusing on the regional (in this case Sicily) as a writer like Pasolini would revert to older Italian dialects in his initial works (is this perhaps to do with the association with fascism via Mussolini and the precarious state of things following World War II?). There is something inherently ironic about making a film 'for Italians' and then placing it into a dialect that many would be confounded by . What was Visconti saying by this? Fortunately for us non-Italian speakers, the film is subtitled and lovingly packaged as many of these classic arthouse reissues (justifying the price). La Terra Trema stands up today and ranks next to more famous works such as The Bicycle Thieves & Rome, Open City. A very good, if not great film; Visconti always a joy to watch.
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La terra trema (Luchino Visconti, 1948, 160')
Original title: La terra trema: Episodio del mare, inspired by Giovanni Verga's I Malavoglia. Read more
Original title: La terra trema: Episodio del mare, inspired by Giovanni Verga's I Malavoglia. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Dr René Codoni
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1948 drama
a great film lots of drama not a lot of action but the film is great to see on a lazy sunday
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Visconti's Devastating Depiction Of Poverty
Luchino Visconti's 1948 film (his second feature) La Terra Trema (or The Earth Will Tremble) is a Zola-esque tale of poverty and the devastating effects it has on the lives of the... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Keith M
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This is a powerful document of life at the bottom of the economic ladder: the lives of poor fishermen in Sicily not long after the war. Read more
Published 23 months ago by W. Hamilton
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Visconti's second movie encompasses the woes and joys of a Sicilian fishing village ,from the great opening scene where rough and tough young men push their boats into a rising... Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2010 by doctor oz MB,MRCP
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