Two Women (1960)

NR12/22/1960Drama, War1h 40m
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Suddenly, Love Becomes Lust… Innocence becomes shame… As two women are trapped by violent passion and unforgettable terror!

Overview

A 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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Sophia Loren

    Cesira

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    Jean-Paul Belmondo

    Michele Di Libero

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    Raf Vallone

    Giovanni

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    Eleonora Brown

    Rosetta

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    Carlo Ninchi

    Filippo, il padre di Michele

  6. Cast 1

    Andrea Checchi

    un fasciste

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    Pupella Maggio

    un fermier

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    Emma Baron

    Maria

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    Antonella Della Porta

    La madre impazzita

I think you could dress Sophia Loren in an old sack and she'd still ooze a personality and charisma that serves her really well in this heart-rending wartime story. She is the widowed "Cesira" who, with bombs falling all around them, decides it's best to get her young daughter "Rosetta" (Eleonora Brown) out of danger. Getting back to her home town of Sant'Eufemia together is a journey fraught with risk but upon their arrival at this Nazi occupied village, they begin to live what might pass for a normal life. "Cesira" even meets the romantic, if a little naive, younger "Michele" (Jean-Paul Belm...