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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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
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
IT
Production
Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.), C. C. Champion, Les Films Marceau-Cocinor, Titanus
CinemaSerf
April 29, 2024
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...
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