{"id":1204,"date":"2009-04-28T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T15:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2009-04-30T08:31:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T08:31:34","slug":"la-mina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/la-mina\/","title":{"rendered":"La mina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Original release date: 15.01.58<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1206\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1206\" title=\"mina\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/mimbo2.2\/images\/mina.jpg\" alt=\"La mina\" width=\"200\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mina.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mina-44x88.jpg 44w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La mina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Country: Italy<\/li>\n<li>Director: Giuseppe Bennati<\/li>\n<li>Certification number \/ date: 25862 on 19.12.57<\/li>\n<li>Production companies: Maxima Film &#8211; Compagnia Cinematografica \/ Lux Film  \/ Aspa Films, Madrid (Spagna)<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"IT\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Alternative titles (+ dates and running times): Spain &#8211; Esta chica es para mi (Madrid, 22.09.58 &#8211; 90&#8242;); International &#8211; The Mine<\/li>\n<li>Cast: Antonio Cifariello, Elsa Martinelli, Felix Acaso, Luis Pe\u00f1a, Giancarlo Zarfati, Luis Induni, Aldo Pini<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sorry &#8211; here&#8217;s one that slipped through the net&#8230; <strong>La mina<\/strong> was the first Italian release of 1958, coming out in the traditionally barren January, a time when very few domestic films were introduced into the cinemas.  It was actually certified the month before, but the premier was delayed until after the Christmas \/ New Year period.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hal Erickson in the All Movie Guide:<\/p>\n<p>Elsa Martinelli plays a resident of a seaside village who falls in love with rootless stranger Antonio Ciffariello. The stranger soon learns that he&#8217;ll have to fight over Elsa&#8217;s affections with hotheaded villager Luis Pena. Meanwhile, a fisherman who illegally uses dynamite nearly causes tragedy to the entire community. How these two plot strands are woven together is the dramatic crux of the film&#8217;s final reel. Despite its melodramatic trappings, <strong>La Mina<\/strong> unfolds in a leisurely, unforced fashion. The worldwide popularity of Elsa Martinelli enabled the film to attain good bookings outside of Spain and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Having said this, there appears to be little evidence that <strong>La mina <\/strong>had an international release in 1958, and although Ms Martinelli was known at the time, she wasn&#8217;t yet the star she would go on to become (in fact, minor lead Antonio Cifariello is the real star).  Still, sounds like an interesting late-period melodrama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry &#8211; here&#8217;s one that slipped through the net&#8230; La mina was the first Italian release of 1958, coming out in the traditionally barren January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[595,596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}