Winterset

Drama, USA, 1936, 77 min.



In 1920, in a town near New York City, a factory paymaster is robbed and killed, and Italian radical Bartolomeo Romagna is wrongfully arrested and executed for the crime. Sixteen years later, Liggett, a law school professor, concludes that the exclusion of the testimony of a key witness, gangster Garth Esdras, during Romagna's trial, had denied the Italian his justice. News reports of Liggett's findings come to the attention of three people: Judge Gaunt, who had sentenced Romagna; mobster Trock Estrella, the real murderer; and Romagna's son Mio. Worried that Garth, who has been leading a reclusive life since the trial, will now expose him, Trock visits him in his Brooklyn tenement and warns him to be silent. That night, Garth's sister Miriamne happens to meet Mio under the Brooklyn Bridge and, unaware of their connection to each other, falls instantly in love with him. Later, the couple meets again in a square and dance to a hurdy-gurdy. During this romantic interlude, a half-crazed Gaunt arrives in the square, searching for Garth. After being soaked by a winter rain storm, Mio tells Miriamne about his father and his need to prove his innocence. Without revealing her relationship to the case, Miriamne advises him to find Garth. Then in the Esdras' tenement, Gaunt questions Garth to appease his own doubts, while Mio tries to force a confession from him. Soon Trock, who has just had Shadow, another witness to the paymaster's murder, shot, arrives and threatens both Mio and Gaunt. Wounded but alive, Shadow bursts through the door and tries to shoot Trock, but dies before he can pull the trigger. At that moment, the police show up looking for Gaunt, but because Garth has hidden Shadow's body, they discount Mio's accusations of murder. Trock leaves with more threats, but a driven Mio tells Miriamne that he is going out to tell the world his story. Torn between her love for her brother and for Mio, Miriamne finally follows Mio, who is caught in the square by Trock and his gunman. Soon after, Garth, overcome by guilt, runs into the street and is shot by the gunman. Still trapped, Mio starts to play the prohibited hurdy-gurdy to attract the police and, to his and Miramne's relief, is arrested. The gunman then mistakenly kills Trock, at last freeing Mio and Miriamne from their pasts.
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Režie: Alfred Santell
Herci: Burgess Meredith, Margová, Eduardo Ciannelli, Maurice Moscovitch, Paul Guilfoyle, více...

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