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The Awakening (1956) [N/A]

Release Date:
October 17, 1956

Original Title:
Suor Letizia

Alternate Titles:
Il più grande amore
Suor Letizia - Il più grande amore

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Produzione Pallavicini
Rizzoli Film

Production Countries:
Italy

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 87

Overview from TheMovieDB

Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening. In her first film appearance since The Rose Tattoo, Anna Magnani plays a feisty nun named Sister Letizia. Believing herself above such earthly trivialities as a maternal instinct, Sr. Letizia changes her way of thinking when an abandoned child is placed in her care. Unofficially adopting the boy, the good sister eventually comes to realize that even she cannot provide the care and guidance of a biological mother. Carefully constructed to accommodate all the surefire box-office elements inherent in Camerini's earlier films, Suor Letizia was almost guaranteed to be a hit.

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Production

Assistant Camera:
Dario Di Palma

Camera Operator:
Erico Menczer

Conductor:
Carlo Savina

Costume Design:
Piero Tosi

Director:
Mario Camerini

Director of Photography:
Gianni Di Venanzo

Editor:
Giuliana Attenni

First Assistant Director:
Otto Pellegrini

Idea:
Giose Rimanelli
Antonio Altoviti

Makeup Artist:
Alberto De Rossi

Original Music Composer:
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

Producer:
Sandro Pallavicini
Angelo Rizzoli

Production Design:
Franco Lolli

Production Manager:
Franco Magli
Emo Bistolfi

Screenplay:
Mario Guerra
Siro Angeli
Ugo Guerra
Vito Blasi
Amleto Micozzi
Piero De Bernardi
Ennio De Concini
Virgilio Tosi
Leonardo Benvenuti
Mario Camerini
Aldo Paladini

Script Supervisor:
Carla Fierro

Set Decoration:
Piero Tosi

Sound:
Attilio Nicolai

Story:
Cesare Zavattini
Mario Camerini

Unit Manager:
Oscar Brazzi
Renato Tonini

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