Daniele Cortis
Directed by	Mario Soldati
Written by	Aldo de Benedetti Mario Soldati Mario Bonfantini Luigi Comencini Diego Fabbri Agostino Richelmy[1]
Produced by	Salvo D'Angelo[1]
Cinematography	Vencesalo Vich[1]
Music by	Nino Rota[1]
Production company	Universalia[1]
Release date	1947 (1947)
Country	Italy[1]
Language	Italian

Daniele Cortis (also known as Elena) is a 1947 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Vittorio Gassman, Sarah Churchill and Gino Cervi.^[2] The film (set in nineteenth-century Italy) follows the impossible love affair between Elena, a noblewoman married to a man who doesn't understand her, and Daniele Cortis, her young cousin and Christian idealist. It is an adaptation of the 1885 novel of the same title by Antonio Fogazzaro.

Cast

• Vittorio Gassman as Daniele Cortis
• Sarah Churchill as Elena
• Gino Cervi as Il marito di Elena
• Evi Maltagliati as Isa
• Gualtiero Tumiati as Aldo
• Rubi D'Alma as Noemi
• Massimo Pianforini as Valentino
• Marco Tulli as Diego

Reception

From a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin review noted that the print was cut by about 35 minutes and featured "indifferent dubbing" and a "very poor print quality".^[1] The review found that with these issues the film was "incomprehensible", but the film was "an astonishing example of how completely such mutilation can change a film, which in this case was already of indifferent quality."^[1]