Assunta Spina
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Assunta Spina is a laundress living in Naples, engaged to a violent butcher named Michele Mangiafuoco. She is also courted intensely by Raffaele. When she accepts Raffaele's offer to dance during an open air feast in Posillipo, as she feels Michele is ignoring her, tragedy strikes.
Assunta Spina is a tragedy set in Naples at the beginning of the twentieth century. Assunta and Michele are in love but others come between them and there is much jealousy. They fight and Michele is sent to prison for two years for assault.
arguably the world’s first blockbuster film—Assunta Spina is much more intimate in its address. The plot revolves almost entirely around, and in fact can be summarized as, a single act of gendered violence: Assunta Spina, a Neapolitan laundress, has her face slashed with a knife by her jealous fiancé, the butcher Michele Boccadifuoco.
Assunta Spina is a 1909 tragic play by the Italian writer Salvatore Di Giacomo, based on his earlier short story of the same name. It premiered at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples with Adelina Magnetti in the title role and a cast that also included Gennaro Pantalena and Francesca Bertini, who would
Dec 29, 2021 · Directed by Francesca Bertini and Gustavo SerenaWritten by Francesca Bertini and Gustavo Serena, based on the novel by Salvatore Di GiacomoStarring Francesca...
Directed by Francesca Bertini, Gustavo Serena. Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to come. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
The film opens with Assunta Spina (Francesca Bertini) a laundress living outside Naples meeting her fiancé Michele Boccadifuoco ( Gustavo Serena), a Naples butcher, off the train. But the continued presence of Raffaele (Luciano Albertini), a former suitor of Assunta, serves to make Michele increasingly jealous
