The Walls of Malapaga

The Walls of Malapaga

Infobox_Film
name = The Walls of Malapaga


caption = Original French film poster
writer = Jean Aurenche
Pierre Bost (adaptation and dialogue)
Cesare Zavattini
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Alfredo Guarini (screenplay)
starring = Jean Gabin
Isa Miranda
director = René Clément
producer = Alfredo Guarini
cinematography = Louis Page
editing = Mario Serandrei
distributor = MGM (1949 Italian release)
Films International (1950 US release)
released = France:
November 5, 1947
United States:
December 20, 1948
runtime = France: 95 mins
Italy: 104 mins
United States: 89 mins
language = French
budget =
music = Roman Vlad
awards =
imdb_id = 0040137 |

"The Walls of Malapaga" ("Italian": "Le mura di Malapaga", "French": "Au-delà des grilles" ("Beyond the Gates"), is a 1949 Franco-Italian film co-production made by Francinex and Italia Produzione. It was directed by René Clément and produced by Alfredo Guarini from a screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Alfredo Guarini adapted by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost. The music score was by Roman Vlad and the cinematography by Louis Page.

The film stars Jean Gabin and Isa Miranda.

Gabin is a French criminal, Pierre Arrignon, on the run who finds himself in Genoa, Italy, and falls in love with a local girl, Marta Manfredini (played by Isa Miranda). The film is set in Italy but the dialogue is in French.

Awards

"The Walls of Malapaga" was highly regarded in its day: it won an honorary Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and both Clément and Miranda won awards at the Cannes Film Festival. However, it is little-known today, and is not available on video or DVD.

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years=1950
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