Two Women
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| Directed by | Vittorio De Sica |
| Produced by | Carlo Ponti |
| Written by | Alberto Moravia (novel) Vittorio De Sica Cesare Zavattini |
| Starring | Sophia Loren Jean-Paul Belmondo Eleonora Brown Carlo Ninchi |
| Release date(s) | December 22, 1960 (Italy) |
| Running time | 100 min |
| Language | Italian/German |
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Two Women (Original title: La Ciociara, literally translated as "The Woman from Ciociaria") is a 1960 Academy Award-winning Italian language film which tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi and was directed by Vittorio De Sica.
The film was adapted by De Sica and Cesare Zavattini from the novel of the same name written by Alberto Moravia.
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[edit] Synopsis
The story centers on a mother, Cesira (Loren), a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and Rosetta (Brown), her devoutly religious teenage daughter, during World War II. Amid Allied bombing of Rome, Cesira and her daughter flee south to her native Ciociaria, a poor, mountainous region of Italy.
There, Cesira attracts the attention of a young local intellectual with communist sympathies, Michele (Belmondo). However, Michele is eventually taken prisoner by a company of German soldiers, who hope to use him as a guide to the mountainous terrain. Later Cesira learns that he has been found dead.
For months, the two women await the arrival of the Allied forces. But liberation brings unexpected tragedy. On their way home, the pair are raped by Goumiers (Moroccan allied soldiers) serving in the French Army, and the daughter suffers a nervous breakdown.
[edit] Awards
The film won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Sophia Loren). It was the first time an actress won an acting award for a non-English speaking role.
[edit] Remakes
La Ciociara was remade for television in 1988. It was adapted by Diana Gould, Lidia Ravera, Dino Risi and Bernardino Zapponi. It was directed by Risi and starred Loren, Robert Loggia, Leonardo Ferrantini, Dario Ghirardi and Sydney Penny.
[edit] External links
- Two Women at the Internet Movie Database
- La Ciociara at Internet Archive
- The complete film on-line at Google Video
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