# Calafuria

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{{Short description|1943 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Calafuria
| image = Calafuria Poster.jpg
| caption = 
| director =[Flavio Calzavara](/source/Flavio_Calzavara)
| producer = [Giovanni Addessi](/source/Giovanni_Addessi)
| based_on = ''Calafuria'' by [Delfino Cinelli](/source/Delfino_Cinelli)
| writer =Flavio Calzavara <br> Delfino Cinelli
| narrator =
| starring =[Doris Duranti](/source/Doris_Duranti) <br> [Gustav Diessl](/source/Gustav_Diessl) <br> [Olga Solbelli](/source/Olga_Solbelli)
| music = [Virgilio Doplicher](/source/Virgilio_Doplicher)
| cinematography = [Gábor Pogány](/source/G%C3%A1bor_Pog%C3%A1ny)
| editing = [Ignazio Ferronetti](/source/Ignazio_Ferronetti)
| studio = Nazionalcine
| distributor = Nazionalcine
| released = {{Film date|1943|03|11|df=y}}
| runtime = 81 minutes
| country = Italy
| language = [Italian](/source/Italian_language) 
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Calafuria''''' is a 1943 Italian [drama film](/source/drama_film) directed by [Flavio Calzavara](/source/Flavio_Calzavara) and starring [Doris Duranti](/source/Doris_Duranti), [Gustav Diessl](/source/Gustav_Diessl) and [Olga Solbelli](/source/Olga_Solbelli).<ref>''Livorno al cinema'' p.9</ref> It is based on the 1929 novel of the same title by [Delfino Cinelli](/source/Delfino_Cinelli).<ref>Goble p.84</ref> It was shot at the [Pisorno Studios](/source/Pisorno_Studios) in [Tirrenia](/source/Tirrenia) and [on location](/source/location_shooting) around [Florence](/source/Florence) and [Livorno](/source/Livorno). The film's sets were designed by the [art director](/source/art_director) [Italo Cremona](/source/Italo_Cremona).

==Synopsis==
One night in [Florence](/source/Florence), [painter](/source/painter) Tommaso rescues a young woman, Marta, who is being beaten in an [alley](/source/alley). He takes her to his uncle's [villa](/source/villa) in the Calafuria area on the coast near [Livorno](/source/Livorno). Although he discovers about her past as a [prostitute](/source/prostitute) he wishes to marry her when she falls pregnant with their child. 

His uncle fiercely opposes the marriage, and a despairing Marta pretends to have committed suicide off the cliffs of Calafuria. She instead heads to [Rome](/source/Rome) to give birth. Tommaso gives up all thoughts of her and volunteers for military service. He is badly wounded in action in the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War) and his life is despaired of. However he wakes from surgery to find Marta and his young son there.

==Cast==
* [Doris Duranti](/source/Doris_Duranti) as 	Marta Traversi
* [Gustav Diessl](/source/Gustav_Diessl) as 	Tommaso Bardelli
* [Olga Solbelli](/source/Olga_Solbelli) as 	Clara
* [Rubi Dalma](/source/Rubi_Dalma) as 	Natalia
* [Bella Starace Sainati](/source/Bella_Starace_Sainati) as 	Giovanna Dini, l'ostetrica
* [Aldo Silvani](/source/Aldo_Silvani) as 	Il signor John Jackson
* [Lamberto Picasso](/source/Lamberto_Picasso) as 	Il conte, padre di Natalia
* [Giulio Battiferri](/source/Giulio_Battiferri) as 	Michele 
* [Arturo Bragaglia](/source/Arturo_Bragaglia) as 	Nandino, il portiere dell' albergo 

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* Borghini, Fabrizio, Guidi, Umberto and Sacchetti, Chiara. ''Livorno al cinema''. Informazione, 1997.
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0034566}}

Category:1943 films
Category:Italian drama films
Category:1943 drama films
Category:1943 Italian-language films
Category:Films directed by Flavio Calzavara
Category:1943 Italian films
Category:Films set in Livorno
Category:Films set in Rome
Category:Films shot in Tuscany
Category:Films shot at Tirrenia Studios
Category:Films based on Italian novels
Category:Italian-language drama films

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