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Two Women is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Vittorio De Sica released in USA on 9 may 1961 with Sophia Loren
Two Women (1960)
La ciociara
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Add to a movie listTwo Women (Italian: La ciociara, roughly translated as "[The Woman] from Ciociaria") is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi. The film was adapted by De Sica and Cesare Zavattini from the novel of the same name written by Alberto Moravia. The story is fictional, but based on actual events during what the Italians call Marocchinate [1].
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The story centers on Cesira (Loren), a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and Rosetta (Brown), her devoutly religious twelve-year-old daughter, during World War II. To escape the Allied bombing of Rome, Cesira and her daughter flee southern Lazio for her native Ciociaria, a rural, mountainous province of central Italy.Actors
Sophia Loren
(Cesira)
Jean-Paul Belmondo
(Michele Di Libero)
Eleonora Brown
(Rosetta)
Carlo Ninchi
(Filippo, il padre di Michele)
Raf Vallone
(Giovanni)
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