| Mare Nostrum | |
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| Directed by | Rafael Gil |
| Written by | Antonio Abad Ojuel Rafael Gil |
| Based on | Mare Nostrum byVicente Blasco Ibáñez |
| Produced by | Cesáreo González |
| Starring | María Félix Fernando Rey Guillermo Marín José Nieto |
| Cinematography | Alfredo Fraile |
| Edited by | José Antonio Rojo |
| Music by | Juan Quintero |
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| Distributed by | Suevia Films (Spain) |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Countries | Italy Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Mare Nostrum (English:Our Sea) is a 1948 Italian-Spanishdrama film directed byRafael Gil and starringMaría Félix,Fernando Rey andGuillermo Marín.[1] The title refers to aLatin phrase for theMediterranean Sea. A Spanish sailor becomes mixed up with a mysterious foreign spy at the time of theSecond World War.
It is an adaptation of thenovel of the same name byVicente Blasco Ibáñez which had previously been turned into a 1926American silent film.
German spies, using Freya (María Félix) as bait, convince neutral Spaniard Ulysses Ferragut to navigate a ship to putnaval mines around British ports in the Mediterranean, telling him they would never fire on passenger ships. But one mine destroys the ship his son, Esteban, was on, killing him and many others. Searching for revenge, Ulises changes his mind and becomes a friend of the allies.
When U.S. troops take overNaples, Ulises chases the boss of the German spies, who is executed later. Freya begs for her life, but Ulises cannot forgive her, and she is executed too. Finally Ulises dies when his ship is bombed by theLuftwaffe.
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