Pelle viva

{{Infobox film | name = Pelle viva | image = Pelle viva.jpg | caption = | director = Giuseppe Fina | writer = Giuseppe Fina | starring = Elsa Martinelli | music = Carlo Rustichelli | cinematography = Antonio Macasoli | editing = | producer = | released = {{Film date|1962}} | country = Italy | language = Italian }} '''''Pelle viva''''' (''Scorched Skin'') is a 1962 Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Fina.<ref name="60-69 m-z">{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2007|isbn=8884405033}}</ref>

The film entered the 23rd Venice International Film Festival, in which it received a special mention.<ref name=premi>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia|title=I premi del cinema|year=1998|publisher=Gremese Editore, 1998|isbn=8877422211}}</ref> In 2008 it was restored and shown as part of the retrospective "Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato" at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite news|last=Simone Pinchiorri|title=Mostra di Venezia 2008: "Questi Fantasmi: Cinema Italiano Ritrovato (1946 – 1975)"|url=http://www.cinemaitaliano.info/news/01960/mostra-di-venezia-2008-questi-fantasmi-cinema.html|accessdate=18 April 2013|newspaper=CinemaItaliano|date=28 July 2008}}</ref>

==Plot == The story of Rosaria, a woman from Apulia, who works in Milan and returns to her village each Saturday to see her illegitimate little boy, who is in a charitable institution.

== Cast == * Elsa Martinelli: Rosaria * Raoul Grassilli: Andrea Morelli * Lia Rainer * Narcisa Bonati * Franco Sportelli * Franco Nero

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0056340}}

Category:1962 films Category:Italian drama films Category:1962 drama films Category:Italian black-and-white films Category:Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli Category:1962 directorial debut films Category:1962 Italian-language films Category:1962 Italian films Category:Italian-language drama films