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Two Women

1960 100 min ★ 7.8 Drama, War

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

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Cast

Sophia Loren

Cesira

Eleonora Brown

Rosetta

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Michele Di Libero

Raf Vallone

Giovanni

Carlo Ninchi

Filippo, il padre di Michele

Andrea Checchi

un fasciste

Pupella Maggio

un fermier

Emma Baron

Maria

Antonella Della Porta

La madre impazzita

Bruna Cealti

une évacuée

Details

Director

Vittorio De Sica

Screenplay

Cesare Zavattini

Tagline

"Suddenly, Love Becomes Lust… Innocence becomes shame… As two women are trapped by violent passion and unforgettable terror!"

Status

Released

Original Language

Production

Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.), C. C. Champion, Les Films Marceau-Cocinor, Titanus

Reviews

CinemaSerf

April 29, 2024

★ 7/10

I think you could dress Sophia Loren in an old sack and she'd still ooze a personality and charisma that serves her really well in this heart-rending wartime story. She is the widowed "Cesira" who, with bombs falling all around them, decides it's best to get her young daughter "Rosetta" (Eleonora Brown) out of danger. Getting back to her home town of Sant'Eufemia together is a journey fraught with...