SYNOPSIS
The Goretti and Serenelli families live in the same house and work in the service of Count Mazzoleni. Just like all the other peasants who work with them in the Pontine Marshes at the beginning of the 20th century, the risk of contracting malaria is extremely high.
Such are the social tensions of the time that the people start to seek justice. Some become venomous in their ferocious response to their sufferings. This is context in which the two children grow up. Until Alessandro finds his views differing from those of Maria to the point that he kills Maria with his knife. As she dies, the young girl, a faithful Christian, forgives Alessandro, showing that hatred can be answered with love.
Year: 2003
Format: TV movie 1×100′
Genre: Drama
Language: Italian
Co-production: Lux Vide, RAI
Viewers: 9.896.000
Share: 35,00%
Cast
| Maria Goretti | Martina Pinto |
| Alessandro Serenelli | Fabrizio Bucci |
| Luigi Goretti | Massimo Bonetti |
| Assunta Goretti | Luisa Ranieri |
| Padre Basilio | Flavio Insinna |
| Contessa Mazzoleni | Claudia Koll |
| Don Temistocle | Marco Messeri |
| Conte Mazzoleni | Luca Biagini |
| Giovanni Serenelli | Manrico Giammarota |
| Medico ospedale | Giulio Base |
| Teresa Cimarelli | Rita Del Piano |
| Medico Condotto | Paolo Fosso |
Crew
| Produced by | Luca Bernabei |
| Directed by | Giulio Base |
| Screenplay | Francesco Contaldo |
| Story editor | Saverio D’Ercole, Gladis Di Pietro |
| Editing | Roberto Siciliano |
| Costumes | Paola Marchesin |
| Scenography | Nino Formica |
| Director of Photography | Fabrizio Lucci |
| Assistant director | Carmine Elia |
| Production organizer | Enzo Tacchia |
| Sound Engineer | Gilberto Martinelli |
| Casting | Fabiola Banzi |
| Rai Producer | Roberta Cadringher |