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The Walls of Malapaga (Italian: Le mura di Malapaga, French: Au-delà des grilles (Beyond the Gates), is a 1949 French-Italian drama film directed by René Clément and starring Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda and Andrea Checchi.
The Walls of Malapaga: Directed by René Clément. With Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi, Andrea Checchi. A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
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- Drama, Romance
- René Clément
- 1950-03-26
The Walls of Malapaga. After murdering his mistress and being hunted by the authorities in France, Pierre (Jean Gabin) stows away aboard a ship bound for Genoa, Italy.
- Drama
- Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi
- René Clément
René Clément, the leading post–World War II and pre–Nouvelle Vague French filmmaker, most famous for his 1952 classic Forbidden Games, made an international name for himself with this peculiar and highly original mixture of two seemingly incomparable genres: neorealist drama and film noir.
Having murdered his girlfriend back in France, Pierre Arrignon (Gabin) stows away and disembarks a ship in Genoa to seek treatment for his toothache. While on land, he meets a precocious little girl named Cecchina (Vera Talchi) and her mother Marta (Miranda), who is avoiding her criminal ex-husband (Andrea Checchi) and working in a diner ...
The Walls of Malapaga (1949) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Walls of Malapaga (Italian: Le mura di Malapaga, French: Au-delà des grilles (Beyond the Gates)), is a 1949 Franco-Italian film co-production made by Francinex and Italia Produzione. It was directed by René Clément and produced by Alfredo Guarini from a screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Alfredo Guarini adapted by ...
