Passionate Song
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Directed byGiorgio Simonelli
Written byManolo Bolognini
Gino De Santis
Jacques Rémy
Alberto Vecchietti
Luigi Zampa
Produced byLuigi Carpentieri
Ermanno Donati
StarringNilla Pizzi
Gérard Landry
Vira Silenti
CinematographyCarlo Montuori
Edited byElsa Dubbini
Music byNino Oliviero
Production
company
Athena Cinematografica
Distributed byENIC
Release date
20 November 1953
Running time
89 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Passionate Song (Italian: Canzone appassionata) is a 1953 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Nilla Pizzi, Gérard Landry and Vira Silenti.[1]

Plot

Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both parents, is taken as a housekeeper in the house of Mrs. Carla Parodi, when she reaches the age of majority, the young woman is almost forced to marry Mrs. Carla's brother. After the marriage and the birth of the first child, Parodi's intrusions on the life of the two spouses continue. At the age of five, the little girl is sent to a college at Carla's suggestion, leaving Lucia in solitude, filled by the presence of Alberto, a shady individual who, after becoming her lover, pushes her to work as a singer in a nightclub. After leaving her husband, Lucia continues her work in the show that will take her around the world, but when she returns, after a few years, she will see her daughter again and will have the sad news about Alberto's attempts to take advantage of the young woman, in the dramatic final Lucia will kill Alberto.

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References

  1. ^ Parish p.100

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