Columba Dominguez in L'edera (1950)
Italian postcard. Columba Dominguez and Roldano Lupi in the Italian film L'edera (Devotion, Augusto Genina 1950). Ed. Mondadori. Prod. Cines. Dist. ENIC. AGAR.
L'edera was an Italian rural drama shot in Barbagia, Sardinia. Vitaliano Brancati contributed to the script, based on a novel by Grazia Deledda. The film quite closely follows the novel, which takes place on the province of Nuoro, but offrs a less drastic finale. Annesa (Columba Dominguez) is adopted by a declining aristocratic family. She is devoted to the family Decherchi, in financial crisis and depending on the heritage of a distant uncle, hosted by the family. Despaired by the uncle's refusal to help the grandson don Paulu (Roldano Lupi), her secret lover, she kills him, Despite suspects Annesa is not unmasked, but her remorse pushes her to confess to a priest (Juan De Landa) and leave the family that hosted her.
Roldano Lupi (1909-1989) was an Italian actor of cinema, television and theatre.
Columba Dominguez in L'edera (1950)
Italian postcard. Columba Dominguez and Roldano Lupi in the Italian film L'edera (Devotion, Augusto Genina 1950). Ed. Mondadori. Prod. Cines. Dist. ENIC. AGAR.
L'edera was an Italian rural drama shot in Barbagia, Sardinia. Vitaliano Brancati contributed to the script, based on a novel by Grazia Deledda. The film quite closely follows the novel, which takes place on the province of Nuoro, but offrs a less drastic finale. Annesa (Columba Dominguez) is adopted by a declining aristocratic family. She is devoted to the family Decherchi, in financial crisis and depending on the heritage of a distant uncle, hosted by the family. Despaired by the uncle's refusal to help the grandson don Paulu (Roldano Lupi), her secret lover, she kills him, Despite suspects Annesa is not unmasked, but her remorse pushes her to confess to a priest (Juan De Landa) and leave the family that hosted her.
Roldano Lupi (1909-1989) was an Italian actor of cinema, television and theatre.