The paddy Raffaello Matarazzo (1956) Screenplay by Aldo De Benedetti, Ennio De Concini, Carlo Musso With Elsa Martinelli (Elena), Folco Lulli (Peter), Michel Auclair (Mario), Rik Battaglia (Gianni), Vivi Gioi (Helen's mother), Lilla Brignone (the wife of Peter), John Santucci (l ' lawyer), Susanne Lévesy, Liliana Gerace, Edith Jost, Bianca Maria Fabbri, Emilia Ristori Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, Photo: Luciano Trasatti (90 minutes) IMDb Rating: 5.9
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Avvertenza preliminare. E' sempre bene ampliare le immagini, per questo film è quasi essenziale, se si vogliono cogliere aspetti di personaggi, di gruppi, di lavori e paesaggi che altrimenti potrebbero sfuggire. Il film va guardato come se fosse un coinvolgente fotoromanzo, un meraviglioso fumetto.
Nel 1949 Giuseppe De Santis aveva girato " Riso amaro " nella Tenuta Veneria in provincia di Vercelli. Sette anni dopo, nel 1956, Raffaello Matarazzo , che ormai si avvia alla fine della sua carriera, gira " La risaia " nella Cascina Graziosa, fra Casalino e Cameriano, in provincia di Novara. Oggi il film di De Santis è universally known, to Matarazzo virtually ignored. In this film I will devote a few posts, because he deserves it for several reasons.
E 'better watch the movie in its own right, as if there had been "Bitter Rice." And 'anything but a remake, to use the usual terminology today. "The Paddy" did not achieve a success comparable to that of some earlier films Matarazzo ( Chains, Torment, the sons of no one who is without sin ), but he had a good result. A great film in its own way as landscapes, such as resonant - almost epic - music by Lavagnino, as a way of filming techniques, such as masses (more than five hundred mondine!). And
Elsa Martinelli ? Again, the comparison with Silvana Mangano is of little value and characteristics of the character are different: the physical appearance helps both the Martinelli Mangano that seem built especially for their two characters. It is unthinkable that if they trade, and is an expression of praise for the directors and performers.
Mondine arrive. Have before forty days of hard work. Down from the wagon which carried them and among them is Elena Forti ( Elsa Martinelli), which looks different from the others. You will find throughout the film that he studied, taking the diploma of a teacher. Before you start work there is a check master. The weeders are arranged in rows as they pass by the table and say their name aloud and the employee is on the check list. Close to note the details is the owner of the farm, Peter ( Folco Lulli) who was impressed to hear the name and the name of the girl, who at the moment there bay. But see later that Peter is very interested in her. 
starting work. It is difficult, singing, laughing and arguing. Elena comes from a little phrase of a fight between Elena mondine which does not participate. Quelled the riot, all in front of Peter, who is a hard master and decided. When he realizes that there is still bitterness between the two groups of rice pickers, asks who gave the trigger, and Elena is accused as guilty, ordered to leave. 
But something unexpected happens. While Elena is leaving to go get his stuff and leave, Peter says that this time we can pass on, so Elena can stay. Thereafter, Peter continues to speak with Helen, trying to find out where it came from and how his life. All notice it, and think there is of physical attractiveness. Instead, Elena realizes that there's more, that's not the point, but is disturbed by the questions that Peter does. Elena does not like to talk about di sé. 
Arriva alla cascina Mario ( Michel Auclair ), che è il nipote della moglie di Pietro ( Lilla Brignone ). Litiga con Pietro, che l'accusa di aver falsificato la sua firma su una cambiale. Viene a sapere dello strano comportamento di Pietro con Elena e naturalmente lo interpreta a suo modo, come una tentata seduzione. Si offre di dare un passaggio per Novara sulla sua macchina rossa a tre mondine. Una trappola per estendere l'invito anche ad Elena che non può sottrarsi e che è interessata ad andare a Novara per ragioni sue. Mario scarica le tre mondine con una scusa, quindi Elena è sola con lui che la aggredisce. Elena, with a torn shoulder can get out of the car. 
is having a work vehicle. It is driven by Gianni ( Rick Battaglia), an auto mechanic who saw the scene and was misinterpreted. Do you think Mario has been to bring down the car red Elena download. Mario gives her a ride to Helen, but makes it clear what he thinks. Helen bursts into tears (but meanwhile has settled into the shoulder strap). Gianni and Elena greet each other, both hoping to meet again. 
But Mario - the grandson perverse - Not spring. During a local party peeps behind the group of Mondini shooting, then, while mondine dance between them, are done under again with Helen, who would not intervene in trouble if John, who arrives at that moment and face resolutely Mario. 
Gianni and Elena leave together. First take an ice cream, then he shows the mechanical workshop of which he is very proud of. He has a partner, but thinks they can get to go it alone in a little 'time. 
Peter takes a trip to Milan. Find a woman with whom he had been twenty years before and had the same last name of Helen. Finally he finds: Elena is the mother of ( Vivi Gioi ) and Peter learns that he is the father. Elena recounts her years of suffering, jobs hard (even now makes the maid), but has managed to raise her daughter and to study it. Do not want to intrude that Peter, after being away for twenty years. dorm mondine a fire. Peter manages to save Helena, at the risk of injury. The girl knows, understands that it is really fond of, but still does not understand why.
Gianni and Elena are happy because they love each other. Peter understood the situation between the two and wants to help them make a life together. Search covertly helping Jack, making him obtain a license from a petroleum company in the field. Gianni - that is not stupid - he discovers who is behind this generous offer, but understand backwards and fights with his girlfriend. Elena does not know what to say, he understood that Peter is not for sexual reasons behind it, who wants them really well, has even saved my life. But at this point, can not help but say to Peter resentful not to interfere in his life, to leave her alone. 
The forty days of work have passed, there is the final party. Helen is desperate, not because Gianni he most sought. The companions are drinking, maybe a bit 'too much, and Helen began to dance alone in the middle of the track. Tuti admired the look. But at some point, Elena did not take it anymore and leaves the track and began to cry alone. Then he goes into the dorm, always alone. 
Mario was also present at the party, which follows Elena, and enter the dormitory to rape her. Meanwhile, something happened that could resolve the situation: Peter has spoken with John and told him the truth, that he is the father of Elena. John rushes to the party, arrives late, he hears a woman's voice shouting "Help!", He understands what Mario is going on and face in the dorm (arriving just in time before the rape). The two men are fighting under the eyes of terrified Elena and Mario dies accidentally going to end up against a large rake with sharp points. Now what? Compare Peter, who decided what to do: it autodenuncerà of killing Mario and go to prison. His way of paying the twenty-year debt to her daughter. Mondine depart on a cart, walking beside the wagon Elena and Gianni. Skip the van of the police with Peter, who has just been arrested. Watch his daughter Elena and her daughter looks at him. Then continue to walk with Gianni.
Elsa Martinelli (real name is Elsa Tia) was born in Grosseto January 30, 1935.
In 1953 in Rome, when does the job in a bar, was discovered by fashion designer Roberto Capucci and quickly became a famous international model and fashion model.
In film, almost immediately a small part in a major motion picture, "Le rouge et le noir " (1954) by Claude Autant-Lara, then the success in a Hollywood movie with Kirk Douglaa: "The Indian Fighter " (1955). So when Raffaello Matarazzo entrusts the role of Elena in "The Paddy" (1956), Elsa Martinelli is very young, but no rookie. He starred in 61 films, but most of them are between 1953 and 1971. After much thinned out her appearances, focusing more on TV and on film.
insert part of an interview that he Laura Laurenzi April 26, 2006 for the Republic :
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sitting in your living room a few steps from Piazza del Popolo, in gray suit and pink, including pink sneakers, Elsa Martinelli is in better shape than ever. It makes the point, says he recalls. He talks about the heyday of which was ironic witness, the three covers on "Life", the summers in Saint Tropez with Brigitte Bardot, the roaring nights in El Morocco in New York, and the conversation inevitably slips on the "I know him well. Nureyev and Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and Salvador Dali. And Marilyn, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly that "he had many lovers .
you like the diva label unwillingly?
"Perfect . Not me, I never pulled. If you create the mystery around the star, the atmosphere of the untouchable, you can just Zompa him and slaughter you. I rather like doing a normal life, go to the movies, go to the market to do the shopping, cooking .
In "Pride" is a wicked duchess. Because these parts to be bad?
" He was 13 years that I was not a fiction. I accepted only because it is a big production: in general things are disgusting and television actresses are all interchangeable, all redone. The bad part of me because I have offered the role of the physical. One meter high and 76 alters, with clothes that are close to my brush, what could I do, sister? the granny with the crochet hook in hand? .
But it is true that you said no to Lelouch that he wanted to "A man a woman judging the story too saccharine?
" Why, is not a saccharine story? If Levi's music to the movie that remains? I was looking for this little-known director with a low forehead, full of curls, grimly. Not aveva un copione scritto, una traccia, niente. Mi raccontò di questi due vedovi, o separati, che si incontrano a Deauville. No grazie! Perché non prende Anouk Aimée? gli dissi. Poi Anouk non ha più fatto molto... ".
Un altro dei suoi no fu per Bettino Craxi, vero?
" Sì, quando era presidente del consiglio mi chiese di occuparmi del suo look. Premetto che sono molto amica della moglie Anna, che stimo tantissimo. Lui mi disse: Elsa, sei una donna internazionale, perché non mi aiuti? Ho rifiutato. Poteva chiederlo alla moglie, o a una professionista. Per me era imbarazzante l'idea di consigliargli il tipo di pantaloni giusti o ritrovarmelo in vestaglia ".
Parliamo of famous men who approached during his Hollywood years. Gary Cooper.
" He drank champagne from my shoe satin to welcome me. But in front of his wife. I am now friends with all the wives, because I realized that could be very jealous .
Kirk Douglas.
" The sexiest, most full of charm. Much of his son."
Humphrey Bogart.
" I never liked it. I found it ugly. Ugly color, so sallow. And then he spoke: mumbled."
Orson Welles.
" great sense of humor. Does not take herself seriously .
John Wayne.
" The opposite of that on the screen, the opposite of the cowboy. One of the finest men I have ever known, with one of the finest homes and most sober I've ever seen in my life .
And John Kennedy?
" I met him in Los Angeles at a friend's house when he was already president. That is, with us has never behaved like a president, but always with simplicity, naturalness, class, a boy born rich who surrounds himself with friends fun. Jacqueline was a very good first lady: I \u200b\u200bthink it was the woman betrayed of America. "
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