After several flops, L’Agnese va a morire is the successful trial by Giuliano Montaldo to make a film out of the novel by Renata Viganò holding the same title and which was awarded in 1948 the prestigious literary award Premio Strega after being published in several foreign languages As the book, also the film tells the story of a humble country laundress, Agnese (Ingrid Thulin), whose sick husband is deported by the Nazis because he had hosted an Italian soldier after September 8th 1943. After killing a German soldier and joining the clandestine partisan movement, the woman get increasingly more aware of what is happening ad her committment also grows more and more. She acts as a dispatch rider between the river banks and the nearby villages and also becomes a symbol of the harsh anti-fascist fight.

LOCATION The film was shot in the Valli di Comacchio area and also in the areas of Bagnacavallo and Alfonsine.
At Stazione Foce, at the entrance of the Valli di Comacchio, can still be seen the partisan barracks which were built as set prop for the film and the enlarged for script purposes.