La Ciociara (1960)
Genre: Drama / War
Duration: 100 minuten
Alternative titles: Two Women / The Woman from Ciociara
Country:
Italy / France
Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Eleonora Brown
IMDb score:
7,7 (13.635)
Releasedate: 22 December 1960
La Ciociara plot
"Suddenly, Love Becomes Lust… Innocence becomes shame… As two women are trapped by violent passion and unforgettable terror!"
Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter flee Rome during World War II to escape the bombings. They move to Cesira's home village and she does everything to protect her daughter.
Actors and actresses
Cesira
Michele Di Libero
Giovanni
Rosetta
Filippo, il padre di Michele
Un fasciste
Un fermier
Maria
La madre impazzita
Une évacuée
Reviews & comments
BBarbie
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Gripping war drama, very realistically filmed. You could trust that to Vittorio de Sica.
In my opinion, Sophia Loren's best role ever. When she is on screen, everything around her disappears.
That's a shame because the Abruzzo region east of Rome, where part of the film was shot, is beautiful.
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Film Pegasus (moderator films)
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- 31191 messages
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From the director behind Ladri di Biciclette and Umberto D. Sophia Loren is brilliant in the lead role and won an Oscar for it. Her character reminded me a bit of Penélope Cruz. La Ciociara has become a war film in which it gradually becomes clear that the political vision was less important than surviving and seeing that you have food and shelter. How step by step the war creeps into daily life and what consequences it has. That it is more than just shooting the enemy. The further we are in the story, the greater the impact of the events.
By following 2 women we see very well that other side. The men are mainly called up, something the women seemed to be spared. They are even more occupied with other concerns. Although everything is of course connected.
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Filmkriebel
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- 10013 messages
- 4679 votes
I think De Sica is about the best Italian director ever and I never pass up a film of his. With La Ciociara I have another great evening behind me. Sophia Loren carries the film on her shoulders... a role in which she does not go unnoticed as a characterful woman.
La Ciociara is a war drama that focuses on the suffering of the little people, in this case a widow with an underage daughter. The context is a lesser-known war crime from 1944, in which Moroccan troops went on a rampage of rape in the neighboring villages after the battle of Monte Cassino. An episode known as La Marrochinate.
The widow flees from bombed Rome to the rural village where she was born and where she thinks she is safe. Afterwards I thought mainly of the words of my late grandmother: in a war you only have your eyes to cry.
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