Top billed cast

1. 

   Sophia Loren

   Cesira

2. 

   Eleonora Brown

   Rosetta

3. 

   Jean-Paul Belmondo

   Michele Di Libero

4. 

   Raf Vallone

   Giovanni

5. 

   Carlo Ninchi

   Filippo, il padre di Michele

6. 

   Andrea Checchi

   un fasciste

7. 

   Pupella Maggio

   un fermier

8. 

   Emma Baron

   Maria

9. 

   Antonella Della Porta

   La madre impazzita

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-04-29

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 risk but upon their arrival at this Nazi occupied village, they begin to live what might pass for a normal life. "Cesira" even meets the romantic, if a little naive, younger "Michele" (Jean-Paul Belm...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Italian

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• 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