Sleeping Beauty

Story

Synopsis

The servant girl Carmela arrives from her village to work in the house of the notary Don Domenico, a hypocritical and ambiguous man, who seduces her. The girl flees from the house and falls into the clutches of a shrew who flatters her with promises and wants to exploit her beauty. A young man, Salvatore, known as Il Nero, who works in the sulfur mines, rescues her from the vile house and forces the notary to make amends for his wrongdoing by marrying her. The girl goes through the various events as if in a daze. On her wedding day, she faints before entering the church and falls seriously ill. Before she dies, she reveals that the sulfur miner was her only love and that his lack of understanding caused her illness.

Director

Luigi Chiarini

Writers

Umberto Barbaro, Vitaliano Brancati, Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo

Language

Italian

Release date

10 January 1942

Ensemble

Cast

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  Amedeo Nazzari

  Salvatore, aka 'Il Nero della solfara'

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  Luisa Ferida

  Carmela

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  Osvaldo Valenti

  Don Vincenzo Caramandola

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  Teresa Franchini

  Zia Agata

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  Pina Piovani

  Nunziata

• Margherita Nicosia Bossi

  Concetta

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  Guido Celano

  Solfataro

• Carlo Dessy

  Solfataro

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  Fiorella Betti

  Erminia

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  Gildo Bocci

  Mercante

• Roberto Pasetti

  Padrone del caffè Trinacria

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  Pietro Bigerna

  Maresciallo dei carabinieri