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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. 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". 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."
References
External links
Daniele Cortis at IMDb