Altura

Altura is a 1949 Italian crime melodrama film directed by Mario Sequi and starring Massimo Girotti, Roldano Lupi and Eleonora Rossi Drago. It is set in Sardinia and portrays a struggle between large landowners and a co-operative of shepherds. Cast Massimo Girotti as Stanis Archena Roldano Lupi as Efisio Barra Eleonora Rossi Drago as Grazia Anna Maria Bottini as Zia Alena Fausto Guerzoni as Napoleone Vittorio Duse Mirko Ellis Gianni De Montero Paolo Scampuddu Nanni Peru Plot In Sardinia, Stanis, who had left the village years ago, returns and finds it in the hands of Barra, an evil man who dominates the milk market unchallenged. Joined in a cooperative with other shepherds, one day, Barra's henchmen attacked the truck bringing milk to markets in other countries. Forced to flee the country, his fiancée is courted more and more persistently by Barra. Still, Stanis returns and, thanks to a former employee, obtains evidence that Barra had the truck destroyed. After a long chase, Barra is killed. Production The film can be ascribed to the strand of sentimental melodramas, commonly called tearjerkers, then very much in vogue among Italian audiences, later renamed by critics as appendix neorealism.