The Little Schoolmistress (Italian: La maestrina) is a 1934 Italian drama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Andreina Pagnani, Renato Cialente and Egisto Olivieri. It was based on a play of the same title by Dario Niccodemi which was again adapted into a 1942 film.Goble p.344 It was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome.Chiti & Poppi p.205 The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. Brignone's sister Mercedes Brignone had starred in a 1919 silent film version of the story directed by Eleuterio Rodolfi.
Synopsis In a village in rural Tuscany at the turn of the twentieth century the young schoolmistress is wrongly suspected by gossips of conducting a secret romantic affair.
Cast Andreina Pagnani as Maria Bini, la maestrina Renato Cialente as Il podestà Egisto Olivieri as Il commissario Enzo Gainotti as Il bidello Jone Frigerio as La direttrice Mario Ferrari as Giacomo Macchia Cesare Zoppetti as Il medico Gina Grappasonni as Una collega di Maria
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Bibliography Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. I film: Tutti i film italiani dal 1930 al 1944. Gremese Editore, 2005. Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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