Daniele Cortis

Daniele Cortis (also known as Elena) is a 1947 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Vittorio Gassman, Sarah Churchill and Gino Cervi. The film (set in nineteenth-century Italy) follows the impossible love affair between Elena, a noblewoman married to a man who doesn't understand her, and Daniele Cortis, her young cousin and Christian idealist. It is an adaptation of the 1885 novel of the same title by Antonio Fogazzaro.

Cast

 * Vittorio Gassman as Daniele Cortis
 * Sarah Churchill as Elena
 * Gino Cervi as Il marito di Elena
 * Evi Maltagliati as Isa
 * Gualtiero Tumiati as Aldo
 * Rubi D'Alma as Noemi
 * Massimo Pianforini as Valentino
 * Marco Tulli as Diego

Reception
From a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin review noted that the print was cut by about 35 minutes and featured "indifferent dubbing" and a "very poor print quality". The review found that with these issues the film was "incomprehensible", but the film was "an astonishing example of how completely such mutilation can change a film, which in this case was already of indifferent quality."