Fatal Desire

Cavalleria Rusticana

“There is a special kind of payment for "borrowing" another man's wife.”

In Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else in his absence, leading to jealousy, betrayal, and murder.

Screenplay

Carmine Gallone

Screenplay

Mario Monicelli

Screenplay

Art Cohn

Screenplay

Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti

Status

Released

Release date

14/01/1954

Original language

Italian