Campane a martello

5.7
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 109 min
  • Premiere: 1949. September 16.

Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.

Discover

Yvonne Sanson

Australia

Carlo Romano

Il maresciallo

Ernesto Almirante

Il Possidente

Salvatore Arcidiacono

Il Farmacista

Ada Colangeli

Francesca

Pasquale Misiano

Autista del camioncino

Nanda De Santis

Luciana Gastaldi (uncredited)

Carlo Pisacane

Filippo, il sacristano (uncredited)

Francesco Santoro

Franco (uncredited)

Art

Piero Gherardi

Production Design

Camera

Carlo Montuori

Director of Photography

Mario Montuori

Camera Operator

Giorgio Orsini

Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

Piero Gherardi

Costume Design

Directing

Luigi Zampa

Director

Paolo Heusch

Script Supervisor

Mauro Bolognini

First Assistant Director

Giuseppe Colizzi

Second Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Bruno Todini

Production Manager

Carlo Ponti

Producer

Sound

Nino Rota

Original Music Composer

Franco Ferrara

Conductor

Writing

Piero Tellini

Screenplay

Art

Piero Gherardi

Production Design

Camera

Carlo Montuori

Director of Photography

Mario Montuori

Camera Operator

Giorgio Orsini

Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

Piero Gherardi

Costume Design

Directing

Luigi Zampa

Director

Paolo Heusch

Script Supervisor

Mauro Bolognini

First Assistant Director

Giuseppe Colizzi

Second Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Bruno Todini

Production Manager

Carlo Ponti

Producer

Sound

Nino Rota

Original Music Composer

Franco Ferrara

Conductor

Writing

Piero Tellini

Screenplay