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TITLE Marianna Ucria (1997)

ALT__TITLE La Vie Silencieuse De Marianna Ucria

DISABILITY Deaf

COUNTRY Italy/France

LENGTH 108

GENRE Historical

DIRECTOR Roberto Faenza

CAST Emmanuelle Laborit

Roberto Herlitzka

Leopoldo Trieste

NOTES Set in the early 1700s a woman from an aristocratic Italian

family is deaf and speaking impaired. At 13 she is forced into marriage with a much older uncle. Her first child is a girl so her husband continues to violate her until she has a son and heir.

From the novel by Dacia Maraini

 


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