A marriage, a murder, and a woman trapped between two prisons — love and law.
Young Rosalia marries the painter Corrado Palmieri, but gets disowned by her family, opposed to the marriage. Then during a fight, Corrado kills his brother in law and is sentenced to a life sentence.
Acting
Dina Sassoli's silent agony could stop your heart.
Cinematography
Deep shadows that swallow hope whole.
Director
Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Carlo Ninchi
Corrado
Dina Sassoli
Rosalia
Renato Cialente
Il dottor Arrigo Palmieri
Greta Gonda
Giovanna, L'ostessa
Elio Steiner
Don Giacinto Castaldi
Tina Lattanzi
Geltrude Castaldi
Guglielmo Barnabò
Il profesore Rinaldi
Vittorio Sanipoli
Giulio, fratello di Rosalia
Achille Majeroni
Il sindaco
Anna Maria Sandri
La piccola Ada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during WWII with scarce resources, this exemplifies how Italian cinema kept artistic ambition alive under Fascism.
The title refers to civil death — legal extinction of rights for life prisoners — a concept Poggioli literalizes through Rosalia's social erasure.
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