Chains
A family drama involving a wife torn between her husband and her criminal ex-lover.
From the archive
After years of making mostly comedies and literary adaptations, Raffaello Matarazzo turned to melodrama with this intense tale of a tight-knit working-class family shattered by temptation. There’s a touch of noir in Chains,in which the saintly yet earthy Yvonne Sanson, as the devoted wife of a mechanic (Amedeo Nazzari), finds herself unwillingly drawn back to an ex-love who has turned to crime.
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- Director
- Raffaello Matarazzo
- Starring
- Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Aldo Nicodemi, Roberto Murolo, Aldo Silvani, Teresa Franchini, Gianfranco Magalotti, Rosalia Randazzo
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