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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.
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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. Cesira (played by Loren) and her teenage daughter, Rosetta (Eleonora Brown), are on the run, fleeing the Allied bombing raids on Rome. They seek sanctuary in a rural area of central Italy, where Cesira becomes involved with a gentle intellectual (Jean-Paul Belmondo). Cesira and Rosetta eventually head back to Rome but are captured and raped by Moroccan soldiers of the French army, a trauma that forever alters their lives and their relationship to each other.
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•Studio: Embassy Pictures Corporation
•Director: Vittorio De Sica
•Producer: Carlo Ponti
•Writers: Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini
•Music: Armando Trovajoli
•Running time: 100 minutes
•Sophia Loren (Cesira)
•Jean-Paul Belmondo (Michele)
•Eleonora Brown (Rosetta)
•Raf Vallone (Giovanni)
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He was also known as a self-help author and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman. [1] Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and their polyamorous life partner, Olive Byrne, greatly influenced Wonder Woman's creation. [1] [2] [3] He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.
Oct 16, 2015 · FIRST PUBLISHED in English in 1958, Two Women is a compassionate yet forthright narrative of simple people struggling to survive in war. The two women are Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and her daughter Rosetta, a naive teenager of haunting beauty and devout faith.
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Nov 20, 2020 · The 86-year-old Oscar-winner (“Two Women”) plays Madame Rosa, a former prostitute and Holocaust survivor who lives in Naples where she takes care of children of streetwalkers including the...
Two Women, novel by Alberto Moravia, published in Italian in 1957 as La ciociara. Based partially on Moravia’s own experiences during World War II, the novel tells the story of Cesira, a strong-willed widow who is forced to flee Rome in 1943 with her 18-year-old daughter Rosetta.
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La Ciociara (Two Women) is a 1958 novel by Italian author Alberto Moravia (1907-1990). The novel was adapted for the movie by Italian screenwriter Cesare Zavattini and director Vittorio De Sica. La Ciociara was remade for TV, also titled Running Away (1989) , in 1988.
