For the Love of Mariastella

For the Love of Mariastella
Directed byPino Mercanti
Screenplay byPino Mercanti
Giuseppe Zucca
Natale Di Cristina
Story byGiuseppe Zucca
Ovidio Imara
Produced byO.F.S. Palermo
StarringOtello Toso
CinematographyGiuseppe La Torre
Edited byMario Serandrei
Release date
  • December 12, 1946 (1946-12-12)
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

For the Love of Mariastella (Italian: Malacarne, also known as Turi della tonnara) is a 1946 Italian melodrama film written and directed by Pino Mercanti. Based on a story of the Sicilian writer Giuseppe Zucca, it was mainly shot in the tonnara of Castellammare del Golfo, with some scenes shot in the tonnaras of Scopello and of San Vito Lo Capo. It is considered as a progenitor of pink neorealism.