CAST:
Sophia Loren,
Eleanora Brown,
Jean-Paul Belmondo

SCRIPT:
Vittorio De Sica,
Cesare Zavattini (scenarij na temelju novele La Ciociara Alberta Moravie)

Synopsis:
WW 2. Cesaria and her thirteen year old daughter Rosetta flee Rome which is under constant bombing. They decide to go to Cesaria’s village. When they arrive there, they find people who live in poverty barely surviving. There they meet an intellectual Michele, a young antifascist whom everybody calls Professor. Both mother and daughter have romantic feelings for him. But soon, Germans take Michele away. Cesaria later learns that he was killed. As the liberation forces progressed, mother and daughter decide to return to Rome. On the way they are raped by Moroccan soldiers… For her role in this film Sophia Loren won an Oscar.

color, 99 min