Two Women
Two Women ( , rough literal translation "The Woman from Ciociaria") is a 1960 war drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica from a screenplay he co-wrote with Cesare Zavattini, based on the 1957 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 the Marocchinate.
Plot
Cesira (Loren) is a widowed shopkeeper, raising her devoutly religious twelve-year-old daughter, Rosetta (Brown), in Rome during World War II. Following the bombing of Rome, mother and daughter flee to Cesira's native Ciociaria, a rural, mountainous province of central Italy. The night before they go, Cesira has sex with Giovanni (Vallone), a married coal dealer in her neighbourhood, who agrees to look after her store in her absence.
Awards
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| author | Cesare Zavattini |
|---|---|
| award | Academy Award for Best Actress Silver nugget for the best foreign film |
| contentLocation | Italy |
| director | Vittorio De Sica |
| editor | Adriana Novelli |
| events | World War II |
| genre | drama horror |
| keywords | allied armies in italy bomb ciociaria communist detach emotionally distant father figure german soldier german soldiers kill little girl married military history of italy during world war ii moroccan goumier slap spank traumatize wehrmacht widow |
| musicBy | Armando Trovaioli |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress |
| producer | Carlo Ponti |
| publisher | Cocinor-Marceau Titanus |
| theme | rape |