La Terra Trema [SEP] director
La Terra Trema
La Terra Trema (; "The Earth Trembles") is a 1948 Italian dramatic film directed by Luchino Visconti. The movie is loosely adapted from Giovanni Verga's novel "I Malavoglia" (1881) ("The House by the Medlar Tree") for the screen.
The picture features, as non-credited non-professional actors, Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, and many others. It is a docufiction in the Sicilian language.
Plot.
Plot Summary.
The story takes place
. With Gianni Puccini, Antonio Pietrangeli and Giuseppe De Santis, he wrote the screenplay for his first film as director: "Ossessione" ("Obsession", 1943), the first neorealist movie and an unofficial adaptation of the novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice" "."
In 1948, he wrote and directed "La terra trema" ("The Earth Trembles"), based on the novel "I Malavoglia" by Giovanni Verga. 
Visconti continued working throughout the 1950s, but he veered away