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In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Luchino Visconti
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Antonio Pietrangeli
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Antonio Arcidiacono
- Ntoni
- (uncredited)
Giuseppe Arcidiacono
- Cola
- (uncredited)
Venera Bonaccorso
- La vecchia che ride
- (uncredited)
Nicola Castorino
- Nicola
- (uncredited)
Rosa Catalano
- Rosa
- (uncredited)
Rosa Costanzo
- Nedda
- (uncredited)
Alfio Fichera
- Michele
- (uncredited)
Carmela Fichera
- La baronessa
- (uncredited)
Agnese Giammona
- Lucia
- (uncredited)
Nelluccia Giammona
- Mara
- (uncredited)
Ignazio Maccarone
- Maccarone
- (uncredited)
Giovanni Maiorana
- Un bambino
- (uncredited)
Antonino Micale
- Vanni
- (uncredited)
Maria Micale
- La madre
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Antonio Pietrangeli(uncredited)
- Giovanni Verga(uncredited)
- Luchino Visconti(uncredited)
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- TriviaWhen financing fell through, Visconti was forced to sell some of his mother's jewelry and one of the family's apartments in Rome to finish the film.
- Quotes
Title Card: [in Italian] In Sicily, Italian is not the language of the poor.
- Alternate versionsWas originally released without Italian narration, but it flopped because the Italian audience could not understand the Sicilian dialect. Visconti re-released it with his own narration, which many find detracts from the film.
- ConnectionsEdited into Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (1985)
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Heartbreaking, Bitter and Cruel Reality
In 1947, in Sicily near Catania, the fishermen in Aci Trezza have been exploited by generations by the local middlemen. The young 'Ntoni Valastro rebels against the economical situation of his poor family and convinces the Valastro to mortgage their simple house in the Fidania Bank in Catania to buy a fish boat of their own and never work again for the wholesalers. In a stormy day, he decides to fish due to the necessity of repaying the debt to the bank; however, the storm destroys his boat and the dream of his family. Without any support and job, 'Ntoni sees the disintegration of his outcast family.
"La Terra Trema: Episodio del Mare" is a heartbreaking, bitter and cruel story of a family of fishermen that decides to change their poor economical situation facing the powerful exploiters. The Marxist "Red Count" Luchino Visconti directs and narrates this little masterpiece of the Italian Neo-Realism casting non-professional actors and actresses, actually fishermen and inhabitants of Aci Trezza. The abusive treatment of the greedy and idle wholesalers gives an idea of how workers were exploited in this period of history and the reason for the ideological fight of classes between Communism and Capitalism. In Brazil, this film was released on DVD by Versátil Distributor. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "A Terra Treme" ("The Earth Shakes")
"La Terra Trema: Episodio del Mare" is a heartbreaking, bitter and cruel story of a family of fishermen that decides to change their poor economical situation facing the powerful exploiters. The Marxist "Red Count" Luchino Visconti directs and narrates this little masterpiece of the Italian Neo-Realism casting non-professional actors and actresses, actually fishermen and inhabitants of Aci Trezza. The abusive treatment of the greedy and idle wholesalers gives an idea of how workers were exploited in this period of history and the reason for the ideological fight of classes between Communism and Capitalism. In Brazil, this film was released on DVD by Versátil Distributor. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "A Terra Treme" ("The Earth Shakes")
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- Runtime2 hours 40 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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