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The Gates of Heaven

1945 film

Summary

1945 film

Field	Value
name	The Gates of Heaven
alt	Screenshot from The Gates of Heaven
image	La_porta_del_cielo_De_Sica.jpg
caption	Screenshot from The Gates of Heaven
director	Vittorio De Sica
producer	Corrado Conti di Senigallia
Salvo D'Angelo
writer	Vittorio De Sica
Piero Bargellini
Diego Fabbri
Adolfo Franci
Carlo Musso
Enrico Ribulsi
Cesare Zavattini
starring	Marina Berti
music	Enzo Masetti
cinematography	Aldo Tonti
editing	Mario Bonotti
studio	Orbis Film
Centro Cattolico Cinematografico
distributor	Lux Film
released
runtime	88 minutes
country	Italy
language	Italian

the 1945 Italian film

Salvo D'Angelo Piero Bargellini Diego Fabbri Adolfo Franci Carlo Musso Enrico Ribulsi Cesare Zavattini Centro Cattolico Cinematografico The Gates of Heaven () is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica.

The film was made during the German occupation of Rome, with support from the Vatican. This and another film, The Ten Commandments, allowed a number of actors, under pressure to go north and work in Venice for the film industry of Mussolini's puppet Italian Social Republic, to remain in Rome.

The film's sets were designed by Salvo D'Angelo who also worked as co-producer. Vittorio de Sica hired approximately 300 extras, who were Jewish or simply being persecuted by the Nazi regime, because of their physical oddity. To avoid their deportation and later execution, he prolonged the shooting of the film as long as he could, awaiting the arrival of the allied armies.

The film won the OCIC Special Award at the 53rd Venice International Film Festival in 1996 for efforts to restore the film.

Plot

This is the story of a train full of sick and deformed pilgrims on their way to seek miracles at the shrine of Our Lady of Loreto, near the city of Ancona in eastern Italy.

Cast

Marina Berti as La crocerossina
Elettra Druscovich as Filomena, la governante
Massimo Girotti as Il giovane cieco
Roldano Lupi as Giovanni Brandacci, il pianista
Carlo Ninchi as L'accompagnatore del cieco
Elli Parvo as La signora provocante
María Mercader as Maria (as Maria Mercader)
Cristiano Cristiani as Claudio Gorini, il bambino paralizzato
Giovanni Grasso as Il commerciante paralitico
Giuseppe Forcina as L'ingegniere
Enrico Ribulsi as Uno dei nepoti del commerciante
Amelia Bissi as La signora Enrichetta
Annibale Betrone as Il medico del treno bianco
Tilde Teldi as La contessa crocerossina
Pina Piovani as La zia del piccolo Claudio
Giulio Alfieri as Un signore anziano
Giulio Calì as Il napoletano curioso
Teresa Mariani
Vittorio Cottafavi
Gildo Bocci

References

Bibliography

Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.

References

Gundle p.262
"La puerta del cielo (1945)".
"La porta del cielo". labiennale.
"Awards for La porta del cielo". imdb.com.

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