The Rose Tattoo (film)
- Anna Magnani: Serafina Delle Rose
- Burt Lancaster: Alvaro Mangiacavallo
- Marisa Pavan: Rosa Delle Rose
- Ben Cooper: Jack Hunter
- Virginia Grey: Estelle High Garden
- Jo Van Fleet: Bessie
- Sandro Giglio: Father De Leo
- Mimi Aguglia: Assunta
- Florence Sundstrom: Flora
The Rose Tattoo ( original title The Rose Tattoo ) is an American film drama directed by Daniel Mann from the year 1955. Served as pattern a play by Tennessee Williams, which was a worldwide success in the 1950s.
Action
The native Sicilian Serafina Delle Rose is a seamstress, and lives with her husband and daughter near New Orleans in an Italian-American community. Her husband, Rosario, whom she loves madly, is a professional truck driver and uses his nightly trips occasionally to transport also illegal. When he decides to get out of this business, he comes during a police operation killed. The desperate Serafina then loses her unborn child. In grief she leaves the corpse Rosario, against all conventions cremated and keep the ashes on in their house.
Several years later Serafina learns now 18 -year-old daughter Rosa Jack Hunter on a dance know. She falls in love with a sailor and introduces him to her mother. Serafina, who came behind the affair Rosario with the blonde blackjack Dealerin Estelle remains, the happiness of the young couple but hidden. They accused Jack of being interested only in pink to rob the innocence. The vows but to respect pink.
A few hours later met Serafina Alvaro. Also, a truck driver from Sicily, the young, simple-minded man is wearing the same rose tattoo on the chest like Rosario. It is known, however with Estelle, after which they accompanied Alvaro for former rival. There she is confronted with Estelle's confession to have also loved Rosario. She also carries a rose tattoo on her chest. Shocked versa Serafina back home and smashes the urn containing the ashes of her late husband. They arranged to meet secretly with Alvaro and he spends the night with her drunk. The next morning he startled the sleeping pink, the misunderstanding, however, can be elucidated. Serafina is Rosa and Jack her blessing. At the same time admits Alvaro his love and she invites him into her home.
Background
The role of Serafina was the first Hollywood - use at all for Anna Magnani.
1951 Williams wrote the Broadway play for Magnani. But Magnanis English skills were too low. On the stage afterwards played Maureen Stapleton, the role of Serafina.
The scenes in the small town on the Mississippi River were filmed on the island of Key West Florida.
In the scene in Mardi Gras Club is screenwriter and producer Wallis Williams cameos allowed. Williams sits in a striped shirt at the bar, Valais sitting next to him. A piquant detail: The man in the white shirt behind Virginia Grey as Estelle High garden is Williams life companion Frank Merlo.
Reviews
The filmdienst saw in Mann's film especially " a platform for Anna Magnani, the virtuoso their passionate expressiveness " unfolding " and the amusing bluntness of her character with the inner confusion of a unerhellten consciousness " verschmilzen could. The Rose Tattoo is beyond in regard to the religious contexts and forms of expression " borne by understanding all seriousness. "