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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 ...
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- La ciociara
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Two Women (1960) - IMDb. Cast & crew. User reviews. Trivia. FAQ. IMDbPro. All topics. Two Women. Original title: La ciociara. 1960. Not Rated. 1h 41m. IMDb RATING. 7.7 /10. 12K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Drama War. In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war. Director. Vittorio De Sica. Writers.
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- Vittorio De Sica
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- Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone
Film Details. Also Known As. La Ciociara. Genre. War. Adaptation. Drama. Foreign. Release Date. Jan 1961. Premiere Information.
- Vittorio De Sica, Luisa Alessandri
- Sophia Loren
As two women are trapped by violent passion and unforgettable terror! Overview Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born.
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La ciociara (“The Peasant”) Two Women, Italian film drama, released in 1961, that earned Sophia Loren an Academy Award for best actress—the first Oscar ever given for a performance in a foreign-language movie. Two Women —which was based on the novel by Alberto Moravia—is a tale of survival in war-torn Italy in the early 1940s.
Sophia Loren became the first player to win an Acting Oscar for a foreign language film in Two Women or La Ciociara in her native Italy. She plays the title role here, the other woman being her daughter played in La Ciociara by Eleanora Brown. The story here is a relatively simple one, Sophia and Eleanora leave Rome due to the bombing of Rome ...
