Malaspina
Film poster
Directed by	Armando Fizzarotti
Written by	Roberto Amoroso
Produced by	Roberto Amoroso
Starring	Vera Rol Aldo Bufi Landi Rino Genovese Ugo D'Alessio
Cinematography	Roberto Amoroso
Music by	Giuseppe Cioffi
Production company	Sud Film
Distributed by	Variety Distribution
Release date	1 May 1947 (1947-05-01)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Malaspina is a 1947 Italian melodrama film directed by Armando Fizzarotti and starring Vera Rol, Aldo Bufi Landi and Rino Genovese. It is a melodrama, based on a popular song of the same name. Its story of female wrongdoing and ultimate redemption was characteristic of Neapolitan-style cinema.

A young woman promises to be faithful to her lover when he goes off to fight in the Second World War. However, in his absence she becomes a prostitute and takes up with a notorious criminal. When her real love returns he kills her new boyfriend. Deeply ashamed of her conduct, she becomes a nun.

The film revived the Naples film-industry, which had largely disappeared during the Fascist era when Italian filmmaking was concentrated in Rome. The film was released in the United States, where it proved popular with Italian-American audiences.^[1]

• Vera Rol as Maria, detta 'Malaspina'
• Aldo Bufi Landi as Andrea
• Rino Genovese as Gaetano
• Ugo D'Alessio as Nicola
• Vittoria Crispo as Teresina
• Carmelo Capurro
• Nicola Pouthod
• Alberto Amato
• Gino Vittorio

• Marlow-Mann, Alex. The New Neapolitan Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
• Moine, Raphaëlle. Cinema Genre. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

• Malaspina at IMDb
• Malaspina at Variety Distribution

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