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Two Women, originally titled La ciociara, is a 1960 Italian and French drama and war film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay was written by Cesare Zavattini, with production by Carlo Ponti. The cast includes Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, and Carlo Ninchi. The film is set in Italy and focuses on World War II. It was produced by Société Générale de Cinématographie, C. C. Champion, Les Films Marceau-Cocinor, and Titanus.
The movie is presented in black-and-white and has a runtime of approximately 100 to 101 minutes. Armando Trovajoli composed the music, while Gábor Pogány served as director of photography and Gastone Medin as production designer. It was distributed by Titanus and Netflix via video on demand. The film received an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the same honor. 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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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
- Composer
- Armando Trovajoli
- Producer
- Carlo Ponti
- Cinematographer
- Gábor Pogány
- Narrative location
- Italy
- Duration
- 100
- FilmAffinity ID
- 122819
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- La ciociara, screenshot.gif
Show 10 more facts
- publication date
- 1960-01-01
- title
- La ciociara
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actress
- color
- black-and-white
- production designer
- Gastone Medin
- distributed by
- Titanus
- Commons category
- La Ciociara (film)
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 88%
- copyright status
- public domain
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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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