Somewhere Beyond Love
aka delitto d'amore
Director:
Luigi Comencini
Writers:
Ugo Pirro (story)
Stars:
Giuliano Gemma,
Stefania Sandrelli, Brizio Montinaro
In this
Italian film, part melodrama and part social/political commentary, two factory workers living in
Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the
North and her traditional
Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love, then marry, her co-worker.
Soon after her wedding, she dies as a result of industrial pollution from her job.
Review
"Luigi Comencini made this propagandistic romantic tragedy in
1974 to illuminate the appalling workers conditions in
Northern Italian factories. Two workers (the sympathetic Giuliano Gemma and Stefania Sandrelli) fall in love and plan to marry--despite she being Sicilian and he Mi
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