Two Women
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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.
Released: 1960-12-22100 minDir: Vittorio De SicaDrama, War
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
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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)
Key dates
- Published
- 1 January 1960
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- war film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- German
- Based on
- Two Women
- Main subject
- World War II
- Director
- Vittorio De Sica
- Screenwriter
- Cesare Zavattini
- Cast member
- Curt Lowens
Article
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.