La Terra Trema

'Ntoni Valastro (A. Arcidiacono), fed up with fish wholesalers, buys a boat to use with his brothers,mortgaging his own house. The bad luck was against him really soon: a thunderstorm destroys his aspirations of economic indipendence and he has to go back working with the bosses. The dream of a lifetime about a good living is not gone yet in the soul of the fisherman. Visconti uses, for the film, actors strictly choosed in the place, who speak dialect. The reference to the "malavoglia" of Verga is not hidden so much: in "Terra trema" the fishermen fight against their bosses's arrogance,while in "Malavoglia" people fight against the fate, that stop them to have a better life. "La terra trema" must be made up,initially,of three episodes and this one (that we are talking about now)  must be the "episodio del mare". 

We can say that "La terra trema" is the top film about the realism and it made gain a tens of millions of italian lire. Presented to the venetian festival in 1948, it won the international prix "Amleto" of Laurence Olivier.