Storms over Morreale
Movie | |
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German title | Storms over Morreale |
Original title | Ettore Fieramosca |
Country of production | Italy |
original language | Italian , French , Spanish |
Publishing year | 1938 |
length | 93 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Alessandro Blasetti |
script | Alessandro Blasetti, Cesare Vico Lodovici , Augusto Mazzetti , Vittorio Nino Novarese |
production |
Attilio Fattori , Vincenzo Genesi |
music | Alessandro Cicognini |
camera |
Mario Albertelli , Václav Vich |
cut | Alessandro Blasetti, Ignazio Ferronetti |
occupation | |
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Storms over Morreale is an Italian adventure film by the director Alessandro Blasetti from 1938. The main role of the Italian national hero Ettore Fieramosca took on Gino Cervi .
action
Italy in 1500: French and Spanish troops dispute the area around Morreale Castle, a rock castle that has victoriously withstood all attacks for centuries. The mistress of the castle is Giovanna di Morreale, who was left alone after the death of her father and her brothers who fell against foreign mercenaries at Fornovo. The Capuan nobleman Ettore Fieramosca goes with his comrades in arms Fanfulla and Brancaleone to this castle, where Graiano d´Asti, a daring adventurer, recruits soldiers for the French army. On the way he meets some noble ladies who are moving to the Spanish camp and takes them with him to Morreale.
Here, however, you don't want to let the ladies pass. A dispute ensues, with the horse Fieramoscas being killed by a shepherd from the castle. Fieramosca faces Giovanna, foaming with rage. From the first moment it looks like some cruel fate is trying to create an insurmountable barrier between them. Meanwhile, a skirmish over a herd of cattle breaks out in the valley between the French and Spanish. Graiano, who applies for the hand of Giovanni in order to become master of Morreale in this way, prompts Fieramosca to come to the aid of the French. He lends him his own armor. Giovanna looks from a castle window as his unexpected and irresistible intervention gives a decisive turn to the meeting. So when Graiano later introduces himself to her in this armor, she believes she has the bold fighter in front of her and promises him her hand. On the same day, Fieramosca accidentally discovers a secret passage that leads into the castle chapel. There he listens unseen as Giovanna confesses to the clergyman. So he learns that she wants to marry Graiano in order to give her subjects a master who is worthy of their choice.
But deep down her heart beats for the young Capuan, and this confuses her immensely. Immediately afterwards, the wedding is celebrated under the eyes of Fieramosca, who, affected and motionless, becomes an involuntary witness in his hiding place. No sooner had he come into possession of his new power than Graiano went to work on his treasonable plans so that the French, led by Guy de la Motte, could seize the castle. Using cunning, he lures the knights, squires and peasants who were supposed to defend the castle into an ambush. Fieramosca alone seeks in hopeless heroism to hold the drawbridge against the intruders. Covered with wounds, the bold warrior is hidden in a tomb, where he tells Giovanna in a fever of his involvement in the struggle between the Spaniards and the French and of the passion that seized him when he saw her in his hiding place in the chapel of hers Heard confession of love for him. Now Giovanna can no longer tolerate his presence in the castle and makes sure that he is secretly transported over to the Spanish camp.
In the meantime, Graiano has been awarded the dignity of Duke of Morreale by Guy de la Motte in return for his shameful betrayal. The investiture is celebrated with a magnificent feast, in which knights and noblewomen take part. The throne, however, on which the traitor is to take his place, has already been taken by Giovanna, who had disappeared since the French moved into the castle. She doesn't say a word, but her features show that she is indignant against the usurper. Furious with rage, Graiano rushes at his young wife to remove her from the throne. At that moment, however, the Spaniards appear before Morreale. Among them is Fieramosca, to whom Graiano had recently sent a white horse with the Morreale branding. Fieramosca is so of the belief that Giovanna should reward him in this way for defending the castle and get even with him. He is deeply hurt by this course of action which he must view for a new grave insult. When he sees Graiano's Italian troops, who have turned away from the traitor and have been sent by Giovanna to prevent bloodshed between people of the same nation, approaching, he and his Italian retinue attack the surprised. It becomes a terrible battle of annihilation until, in the middle of the raging battle, a dying warrior of Giovanni reveals his tragic error.
The battle, in which the French also intervened, ends with a victory for the Spanish and Italians. As prisoners of Don Diego Garcia de Paredes, commander of the Spanish troops, Guy de la Motte and his French knights await the hour of liberation in Barletta. Irritated and aroused by copious drinks, they joke the innkeeper Sugna, which soon turns into cruel ridicule. In the ensuing discussion, Guy de la Motte found the opportunity to mock and insult the Italian knights.
The white steed Fieramoscas, which its owner had to leave to himself for some time in battle, has returned to Morreale Castle. On seeing the stray horse, Giovanna believes that Fieramosca has been badly wounded or even killed and rushes to the Spanish camp to look for him. The two meet and now have the opportunity to clear up the errors that have arisen in their hearts. Fieramosca trembles with impatience to make amends for the mistakes his pride made him make. As soon as he hears of the insult that Guy de la Motte has uttered, he rushes to challenge him to a duel on his own behalf and on behalf of the twelve Italians who escaped the Morreale bloodbath.
Graiano takes the side of the French. The Italian knights perform miracles of bravery in the battle that follows. Graiano tries in vain to deceitfully knock down Fieramosca. Brancaleone fatally hits the traitor. To the exultation of the people, the French are forced to surrender. But with this victory, Fieramosca also conquered the heart and hand of Giovanna von Morreale.
publication
Storms over Morreale premiered in Italy on December 29, 1938. In Germany, it was first shown in cinemas on November 2, 1939.
synchronization
The German version was created in 1939 in the Lüdtke & Dr. Rohnstein in Berlin under the direction of Dr. Konrad P. Rohnstein.
role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
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Ettore Fieramosca | Gino Cervi | Claus Clausen |
Graiano d'Asti | Mario Ferrari | Alfred Haase |
Giovanna di Morreale | Elisa Cegani | Edyth Edwards |
Guy de la Motte | Osvaldo Valenti | Werner Scharf |
Prospero Colonna | Lamberto Picasso | Werner Schott |
Don Diego Garcia de Paredes | Corrado Racca | CW castle |
Fulvia | Clara Calamai | Käthe Vanden |
Franciotto | Umberto Sacripante | Eduard Bornträger |
Jacopo | Carlo Duse | Erich Dunskus |
Gentilino | Andrea Checchi | Oskar Schättiger |
Web links
- Storms Morreale in the Internet Movie Database (English)