Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty (1942)

Drama

The servant girl Carmela arrives from her village to work in the house of the notary Don Domenico, a hypocritical and ambiguous man, who seduces her. The girl flees from the house and falls into the clutches of a shrew who flatters her with promises and wants to exploit her beauty. A young man, Salvatore, known as Il Nero, who works in the sulfur mines, rescues her from the vile house and forces the notary to make amends for his wrongdoing by marrying her. The girl goes through the various events as if in a daze. On her wedding day, she faints before entering the church and falls seriously ill. Before she dies, she reveals that the sulfur miner was her only love and that his lack of understanding caused her illness.

Director: Luigi Chiarini
Writers: Vitaliano Brancati, Luigi Chiarini, Umberto Barbaro.

Casts

	Amedeo Nazzari as Salvatore, aka 'Il Nero della solfara'
	Luisa Ferida as Carmela
	Osvaldo Valenti as Don Vincenzo Caramandola
	Teresa Franchini as Zia Agata
	Pina Piovani as Nunziata
	Margherita Nicosia Bossi as Concetta
	Guido Celano as Solfataro
	Carlo Dessy as Solfataro
	Fiorella Betti as Erminia
	Gildo Bocci as Mercante
	Roberto Pasetti as Padrone del caffè Trinacria
	Pietro Bigerna as Maresciallo dei carabinieri
	Piero Palermini as Cliente del caffè Trinacria
	Renata Drago as Ragazza del paese
	Isa Mari as Ragazza del paese
	Luigi Urbinati as Uomo col grammofono
	Renato Navarrini as Medico
	Achille Togliani as

Crew