Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to leave her own baby behind. To the consternation and increasing anger of the wife, the nanny immediately bonds with the couple's infant son - Annette's a natural. Against a backdrop of leftist demonstrations, Annette, who's lover is a teacher jailed for subversion, asks the doctor to teach her to read and write. Her nature and curiosity, the doctor's bland ideas, he and his wife's problems, and the two infants bring the story to a head.
Luigi Pirandello
Writer
Marco Bellocchio
Director
Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Prof. Mori
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Vittoria Mori
Maya Sansa
Annetta
Jacqueline Lustig
Maddalena
Pier Giorgio Bellocchio
Nardi
Elda Alvigini
Lena
Elda Alvigini
Patient
Fabio Camilli
Broker
Michele Placido
Belli Estate Patient
Piccolo corpo69%
Una figlia63%
La joven69%
Le cose non dette67%
What Maisie Knew71%
Starving in Suburbia65%
Fast Girls60%
La messa è finita73%
Il tetto73%
La Riffa68%
Hungry Hearts65%
The Trials of Cate McCall63%
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle69%
Incompresa62%
Cosa sarà72%
Goal II: Living the Dream59%
Lorelei59%
Scandalous Sex68%
Hands of Stone66%
Favolacce67%
