The son of a man falsely executed for killing an aristocratic woman returns to Italy after studying medicine in England,and operates on the woman's daughter who had become blind after witnessing the crime..
If you have got a rainy afternoon and a soft spot for extremely dusty, tear-soaked Italian melodramas from the 1930s, The Blind Woman of Sorrento is worth a look. Otherwise, if you hate slow-moving stories where people stare intensely into the distance for minutes at a time, you will probably want to skip this one enti...
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Nunzio Malasomma
Bruno Ziener
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"If you have got a rainy afternoon and a soft spot for extremely dusty, tear-soaked Italian melodramas from the 1930s, The Blind Woman of Sorrento is worth a look. Otherwise, if you hate slow-moving stories where people stare intensely into the distance for minutes at a time, you will probably want to skip this one entirely. 🏛️ I stumbled onto this while looking for early Italian talkies, mostly because a very young Anna Magnani has a tiny role in it. She is barely in it, honestly, but even her..."
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