When Venucci is crying over his son's body, there are coins on the dead man's eyes. The tradition of placing pennies on the eyes of the corpse - to pay Charon the ferryman to carry the person's soul across the River Styx - dates back to Ancient Rome and Greece.
Marina Sirtis (Lucrezia Venucci) later went on to find fame playing Counsellor Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) and the 4 films which followed: Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)