La ciociara
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. During their journey and in the village and onward, the mother does everything she can to protect Rosetta. Meanwhile, a sensitive young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira.
- Genre: Drama, Krig
- Studio: Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.), C. C. Champion, Les Films Marceau-Cocinor, Titanus
- Nøgleord: rape, rome, italy, parent child relationship, italy, widow, refugee, peasant, world war ii, wartime, single mother, shopkeeper, remote village, young scholar, bombed church, moroccans, return to birthplace
- Cast: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi, Andrea Checchi
