today’s birthday: Sophia Loren (1934)
Sophia Loren is a famous film actress who grew up in poverty near Naples, Italy. With the help of Italian producer Carlo Ponti, whom she later married, she gained international fame, acting in both tragic dramas and boisterous comedies. She won the first Academy Award for a foreign-language performance for her role in the 1961 film Two Women, and she received a special Academy Award in 1991 for her body of work. Why did she serve more than two weeks in prison in 1982? More… Discuss
La Ciociara – Vittorio de Sica by GM
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| Directed by | Vittorio De Sica |
| Produced by | Carlo Ponti |
| Written by | Vittorio De Sica Cesare Zavattini Alberto Moravia (novel) |
| Starring | Sophia Loren Jean-Paul Belmondo Eleonora Brown Carlo Ninchi |
| Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
| Cinematography | Gábor Pogány |
| Distributed by | Titanus Distribuzione |
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| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian German |
Two Women (Italian: La ciociara, roughly translated as “[The Woman] from Ciociaria“) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi. The film was adapted by De Sica and Cesare Zavattini from the novel of the same name written by Alberto Moravia. The story is fictional, but based on actual events during what the Italians call Marocchinate [1].
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