Bread, Love and Jealousy movie storyline. In a small Italian village, Maria De Ritis is engaged to army Lieutenant Pietro Stelluti. Stelluti’s superior officer, Marshal Antonio Carotenuto, is contemplating marriage to Annarella Mirziano, but he will be forced to resign if he marries Annarella, since she has an illegitimate child and that is against regulations for army officers. When Stelluti leaves town for a few weeks, the town-gossips create an affair out of the innocent relationship between Maria and Antonio.
Stelluti returns and accuses Maria of infidelity, and, she, in reprisal, runs off and joins a traveling theatrical troupe as a dancer. Antonio, after convincing Annarella that he has not betrayed her love, encounters more trouble when the father of Annarella’s child shows up and asks that she and the child go away with him. Antonio tells Annarella that it is her decision to make, and she chooses the child’s father and leaves with him. Maria arrives back in town, as does an earthquake that destroys her home, but she and Stelluti are reunited.
Bread, Love and Jealousy (Italian: Pane, Amore e Gelosia), known as Frisky in the US, is a 1954 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. It is the second part of the Italian trilogy, preceded by Bread, Love and Dreams and followed by Scandal in Sorrento. The film is usually considered one of the most famous examples of Pink neorealism. Tina Pica won the Nastro d’Argento as Best Supporting Actress for this film.
Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954)
Directed by: Luigi Comencini
Starring: Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini, Tina Pica, Maria Pia Casilio, Roberto Risso, Virgilio Riento, Saro Urzi, Tecla Scarano, Vittoria Crispo, Nino Vingelli, Fausto Guerzoni, Renato Navarrini, Marcella Melnati
Screenplay by: Luigi Comencini, Ettore Margadonna
Cinematography by: Arturo Gallea
Film Editing by: Mario Serandrei
Set Decoration by: Ugo Pericoli
Art Direction by: Gastone Medin
Music by: Alessandro Cicognini
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Titanus (Italy), Distributors Corporation of America (USA)
Release Date: December 6, 1954
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