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The Gates of Heaven (Italian: La porta del cielo) is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica.
The film was made during the German occupation of Rome, with support from the Vatican. This and another film The Ten Commandments allowed a number of actors, under pressure to go north and work in Venice for the film industry of Mussolini's puppet Italian Social Republic, to remain in Rome.
The film's sets were designed by Salvo D'Angelo who also worked as co-producer. Vittorio de Sica hired approximately 300 extras, who were Jewish or simply being persecuted by the Nazi regime, because of their physical oddity. To avoid their deportation and later execution, he prolonged the shooting of the film as long as he could, awaiting the arrival of the allied armies.
The film won the OCIC Special Award at the 53rd Venice International Film Festival in 1996 for efforts to restore the film.




Plot


This is the story of a train full of sick and deformed pilgrims on their way to seek miracles at the shrine of Our Lady of Loreto, near the city of Ancona in eastern Italy.




Cast


Marina Berti as La crocerossina
Elettra Druscovich as Filomena, la governante
Massimo Girotti as Il giovane cieco
Roldano Lupi as Giovanni Brandacci, il pianista
Carlo Ninchi as L'accompagnatore del cieco
Elli Parvo as La signora provocante
María Mercader as Maria (as Maria Mercader)
Cristiano Cristiani as Claudio Gorini, il bambino paralizzato
Giovanni Grasso as Il commerciante paralitico
Giuseppe Forcina as L'ingegniere
Enrico Ribulsi as Uno dei nepoti del commerciante
Amelia Bissi as La signora Enrichetta
Annibale Betrone as Il medico del treno bianco
Tilde Teldi as La contessa crocerossina
Pina Piovani as La zia del piccolo Claudio
Giulio Alfieri as Un signore anziano
Giulio Calì as Il napoletano curioso
Teresa Mariani
Vittorio Cottafavi
Gildo Bocci




References






Bibliography


Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.




External links


The Gates of Heaven at IMDb

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