The Flame That Will Not Die

The Flame That Will Not Die
Directed by	Vittorio Cottafavi
Written by	Siro Angeli Oreste Biancoli Giorgio Capitani Giuliano Conte Vittorio Cottafavi Mario Pagani Fulvio Palmieri Alberto Pozzetti Franco Navarra Vigiani (novel)
Produced by	Franco Navarra Vigiani
Starring	Gino Cervi María Denis Leonardo Cortese
Cinematography	Gábor Pogány
Edited by	Renzo Lucidi
Music by	Alessandro Cicognini
Production company	Orsa Film
Distributed by	ENIC
Release date	21 September 1949
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Flame That Will Not Die (Italian: Fiamma che non si spegne) is a 1949 Italian war drama film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and starring Gino Cervi, María Denis and Leonardo Cortese. It is based on the story of Salvo D'Acquisto, a Carabinieri officer who died to save others being executed by the Germans during the Second World War.

It was made at Cinecittà Studios. The film's sets were designed by Ottavio Scotti.

Cast

• Gino Cervi as Luigi Manfredi
• María Denis as Maria
• Leonardo Cortese as Giuseppe Manfredi
• Luigi Tosi as Giovanni
• Carlo Campanini as Il zio di Maria
• Danielle Benson as Caterina
• Diana Benucci
• Siro Angeli
• Lorena Berg
• Nando Bruno
• Tino Buazzelli
• Vittorio Cottafavi
• Maurizio Di Nardo
• Giovanni Lovatelli
• Fulvia Mammi as Norina
• Carlo Mariotti
• Arnaldo Mochetti
• Diego Muni
• Dina Romano
• Gian Paolo Rosmino
• Gustavo Serena
• Barbara Vassarotti
• Gaio Visconti

Bibliography

• Guido Bonsaver & Robert Gordon. Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-century Italy. European Humanities Research Centre, 2005.

External links

• The Flame That Will Not Die at IMDb