Mare Nostrum (1948 film) Mare Nostrum (1948 film) Mare Nostrum (English: Our Sea) is a 1948 Italian-Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring María Félix, Fernando Rey and Guillermo Marín. The title refers to a Latin phrase for the Mediterranean Sea. A Spanish sailor becomes mixed up with a mysterious foreign spy at the time of the Second World War. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez which had previously been turned into 1926 American silent film. German spies, using Freya María Félix as bait, convince neutral Spaniard Ulysses Ferragut to navigate a ship
Mare Nostrum (1926 film) Mare Nostrum (1926 film) Mare Nostrum (1926) is a silent film set during World War I. A Spanish merchant sailor becomes involved with a spy. It was the first production made in voluntary exile by Rex Ingram and starred his wife, Alice Terry. It is based on the novel of the same name by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Long thought lost, the film has recently been re-discovered and restored. As a young boy growing up in a Spanish family with a long and very distinguished maritime tradition, Ulysses Ferragut is regaled with tales of the sea by his retired uncle, the