Chains (film)

Chains
Directed byRaffaello Matarazzo
Written byLibero Bovio
Gaspare Di Maio
Nicola Manzari
Aldo De Benedetti
Produced byGoffredo Lombardo
Raffaello Matarazzo
StarringAmedeo Nazzari
Yvonne Sanson
CinematographyCarlo Montuori
Edited byMario Serandrei
Music byGino Campese
Production
companies
Labor Film
Titanus
Distributed byTitanus Distribuzione
Release date
  • 29 October 1949 (1949-10-29)
Running time
90 min
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Catene (internationally released as Chains) is a 1949 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It had an impressive commercial success, being seen by 6 million people, one in eight Italians of the time,[1] and was followed by a series of six other successful films directed by Matarazzo and featuring the couple Amedeo Nazzari and Yvonne Sanson.[2][3] The film was remade in 1974.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti. The film features in Cinema Paradiso. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[4]

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  2. ^ Gino Moliterno (2009). The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0810868960.
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  4. ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.