| Tragic Return | |
| Director: | Pier Luigi Faraldo |
| Producer: | Eugenio Fontana Giacinto Solito |
| Starring: | Doris Duranti Marcello Mastroianni Franca Marzi |
| Music: | Costantino Ferri |
| Cinematography: | Alvaro Mancori |
| Editing: | Giacinto Solito |
| Studio: | Produzione Fontana |
| Distributor: | Titanus |
| Runtime: | 98 minutes |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
Tragic Return (Italian: Tragico ritorno) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film directed by Pier Luigi Faraldo and starring Doris Duranti, Marcello Mastroianni and Franca Marzi.[1] It was shot at the Pisorno Studios in Tirrenia. The film's sets were designed by the art director Giorgio Ansoldi. It earned 92 million lire at the Italian box office.[2]
Marco, after some years in a prisoner of war camp, returns to his home in Livorno to find his wife Giovanna married to another man and their son doesn't know who he is. Suicidal he is encouraged by Elisa a young woman who manages a beachfront business with her father. Marco plans on emigrating to Argentina but to raise the money he becomes involved in robberies.