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) "Triton" (Apollon), and is particularly fascinated by his claim to have once seen the sea goddess Amphitrite. Though his lawyer father, Don Esteban, wants him to follow in his footsteps, Ulysses becomes a sailor. When he is a grown man (Antonio Moreno), Ulysses uses his life savings to purchase the "Mare Nostrum", a fast, modern freighter, and prospers. However, he finally gives in to his wife, Dona Cinta, for the sake of their son Esteban, and agrees to sell his ship. With the outbreak of World War I, however, the enormous profits to be made from the sudden demand for