Two Women movie synopsis. To flee from yet another devastating attack during the Allied bombing of Rome on July 19, 1943, the widowed mother, Cesira, and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, leave behind the capital to find shelter in the rugged and mountainous region of Ciociaria; Cesira’s birthplace.
There, amid hunger and deprivation, the two women will stumble upon Michele di Libero, the village’s charming young intellectual, who is everything Cesira needs–a loving husband for her and a caring father for Rosetta–however, the war is far from over. Can the three of them live a normal life back in Rome in the aftermath of the costly World War Two?
Two Women (Italian: La Eiociara, rough literal translation “The Woman from Ciociaria”) is a 1960 war drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica from a screenplay by Cesare Zavattini and De Sica, based on the novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown and Raf Vallone. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. The story is fictional, but based on actual events of 1944 in Rome and rural Lazio, during what Italians call the Marocchinate.
Two Women (1960)
Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Raf Vallone, Pupella Maggio, Andrea Checchi, Emma Baron, Antonella Della Porta, Mario Frera, Luciana Cortellesi
Screenplay by: Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica
Cinematography by: Gábor Pogány
Film Editing by: Adriana Novelli
Costume Design by: Elio Costanzi
Set Decoration by: Elio Costanzi
Music by: Armando Trovajoli
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Titanus (Italy), Cocinor-Marceau (France), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (international)
Release Date: December 23, 1960 (Italy), May 17, 1961 (France)
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