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*Two Women* (Italian: *La ciociara*) is a 1960 black-and-white drama and war film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay was written by Cesare Zavattini, with Carlo Ponti serving as producer. The cast includes Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, and Carlo Ninchi. The film was produced in France and Italy, with Gábor Pogány as director of photography and Gastone Medin as production designer. It is based on the work *Two Women* and is set in Italy during World War II.
The film has a runtime of 100 minutes, though some sources list it as 101 minutes. It was distributed by Titanus and Netflix. *Two Women* received an Academy Award for Best Actress and has won 11 awards with 3 nominations in total. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.7 and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 88%.
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Film · TMDB
7.8A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
Cast
- Sophia Loren as Cesira
- Eleonora Brown as Rosetta
- Jean-Paul Belmondo as Michele Di Libero
- Raf Vallone as Giovanni
- Carlo Ninchi as Filippo, il padre di Michele
- Andrea Checchi as un fasciste
Themes
- rape
- rome, italy
- parent child relationship
- italy
- widow
- refugee
- peasant
- world war ii
- wartime
- single mother
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Ratings
IMDb
7.7/10
13,351 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
- Year
- 1960
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Italian
- La ciociara
- Directed by
- Vittorio De Sica
- Screenplay by
- Cesare Zavattini Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
- Based on
- Two Women , by Alberto Moravia
- Produced by
- Carlo Ponti
- Starring
- Sophia Loren Jean-Paul Belmondo Eleonora Brown Raf Vallone
- Cinematography
- Gábor Pogány
- Edited by
- Adriana Novelli
- Music by
- Armando Trovajoli
- Production companies
- Compagnia Cinematografica Champion Les Films Marceau Cocinor Société Générale de Cinématographie
- Distributed by
- Titanus (Italy) Cocinor-Marceau (France)
- Release dates
- 22 December 1960 ( 1960-12-22 ) (Milan premiere) 23 December 1960 ( 1960-12-23 ) (Italy) 17 May 1961 ( 1961-05-17 ) (France)
- Running time
- 100 minutes
- Countries
- Italy France
- Languages
- Italian German
- Budget
- $850,000
- Box office
- $7.2 million (US and Canada) 2,030,033 admissions (France) 9,662,000 admissions (Italy)
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Encyclopedic overview
Two Women (Italian: La ciociara [la tʃoˈtʃaːra], 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.
Loren's performance received critical acclaim, earning her the 1961 Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first Italian actress to win for Best Actress in an Italian-language film as well as the first individual to win for a foreign-language performance.
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