Mother Earth (film)

Mother Earth
Directed by	Alessandro Blasetti
Written by	Goffredo Alessandrini Camillo Apolloni Gian Bistolfi Alessandro Blasetti
Starring	Leda Gloria Sandro Salvini Isa Pola Olga Capri
Cinematography	Giulio De Luca Carlo Montuori
Edited by	Carlo José Bassoli Alessandro Blasetti
Music by	Francesco Balilla Pratella Pietro Sassoli
Production company	Società Italiana Cines
Distributed by	Societa Anonima Stefano Pittaluga
Release date	April 1931 (1931-04)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Mother Earth (Italian: Terra madre) is a 1931 Italian drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Leda Gloria, Sandro Salvini and Isa Pola. It was made at the Cines Studios in Rome. Along with Blasetti's other early films, it shows a strong influence of Soviet-style realism. A country landowner decides to sell up and move to the city, but later has a change of heart. It was part of Fascist Italy's promotion of rural over urban values.

Cast

• Leda Gloria as Emilia
• Sandro Salvini as Il duca Marco
• Isa Pola as Daisy
• Olga Capri as La governante della tenuta
• Vasco Creti Nunzio, Il massaro, padre di Emilia
• Carlo Ninchi as Il commandatore Bordani
• Franco Coop as Silvano, un contadino
• Raimondo Van Riel as Un contadino nella taverna
• Giorgio Bianchi as Il cortegiatore di Daisy
• Ugo Gracci as L'aiutante del massaro
• Umberto Sacripante as Il contadino idiota

Bibliography

• Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943. Indiana University Press, 2002.

External links

• Mother Earth at IMDb