O.K. Agostina
The film "Ok Agostina" of 1949, directed by Luigi Zampa, seems to show the island at that time real enough. Immediately after the war, in fact, in the film, Agostina and Australia landed in Ischia, after receiving the deportation order for being prostitutes, in a landscape still ravaged by war. Life seems to start for them. Ischia is a land of work, where the port cleaning the barrels, probably due to a recovery in exports of "Forastera" typical white wine of the island, it is a poor country where it does not take much to have fun: parties are organized by country races the sack race on the beach. The piles of rubble that mark the landscape are not the only legacy of the war, there is also the sad phenomenon of abandoned: the illegitimate children born as a result of permanent employment of the crew, refused to shame by their mothers, are welcomed in the small church of Santa Maria del Soccorso and caring for them is a priest (Eduardo De Filippo) who must struggle against the insensitivity of the country and in particular of its notables. Inspiration of bad criticism levied in that movie is just the director's position, which - according to Aristarchus - it was believed in duty to take, very clumsily, the defense of the unfortunate victims of venal love against the bourgeois conviction.
- Title Ok Agostina
- Release date(s) 1949
- Genre Dramatic
- Running time 100 min
- Production CARLO PONTI PER LA LUX FILM
- Direction LUIGI ZAMPA
- Main actors: Eduardo De Filippo, Gina Lollobrigida,
Yvonne Sanson, Carlo Romano - Photography: Carlo Montuori
- Editing: Eraldo Da Roma
- Music: Nino Rota
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