
Suddenly, Love Becomes Lust… Innocence becomes shame… As two women are trapped by violent passion and unforgettable terror!
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.
- 7.8
- 1960
- Released
- 1h 40m

Sophia Loren
Cesira
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Michele Di Libero
Raf Vallone
Giovanni
Eleonora Brown
Rosetta
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
Luciano Pigozzi
Scimmione
Franco Balducci
il tedesco nel pagliaio
Mario Frera
Peppuccio
Curt Lowens
ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea
Luciana Cortellesi

Tony Calio

Remo Galavotti

Elsa Mancini

Giuseppina Ruggeri

Luigi Terribile

Antonio Gastaldi

Carolina Carbonaro

Alberto Castaldi
Lawyer (uncredited)
Vincenzo Musolino
Il piccolo Alessandro (uncredited)
Ettore Mattia
Il passeggero sul treno (uncredited)
Renato Salvatori
Florindo (uncredited)
Released
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- #rape
- #rome, italy
- #parent child relationship
- #italy
- #widow
- #refugee
- #peasant
- #world war ii
- #wartime
- #single mother
- #shopkeeper
- #remote village
- #young scholar
- #bombed church
- #moroccans
- #return to birthplace
Reviews

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











