Overview
Dame Eleonora Duse plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her boy, the woman gives to the child an amulet in order to protect him. The amulet will be the key to put him in connection with his old mother when the boy grows up.
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on Ashes
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Setting
Set in Sardinia
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Music
Music by Philip Glass
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Eugenio Bava
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Grazia DeleddaNovel
- Eleonora DuseScreenplay
- Febo MariScreenplay
- Original title
- Cenere
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 2, 1917
- Original language
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
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