28 September 2006

La ciociara


La ciociara ("The two women") is a film by Vittorio De Sica.

It's the Italian Filmfestival presenting this film this time.

A relatively good film, about a mother and her daughter, their fight to survive during the second World War.
The mother - Sophia Loren - alone with a daughter after her elderly husband died.
Rumours says she married him for money.
She is running a grocery store and when their city is bombed by the Allied during the last days of the dictatorship of 'Il Duce', she and her daughter tries to flee.

They are heading towards Rome.

Jean-Paul Belmondo plays an intellectual who want's to stay out of the war and criticise his own country (Italy) and Il Duce for being a degenerate people with a likewise leader.

The mother and daughter suffers lots of hardship during their escape. This hardens the daughter and make her cool and emotionally disturbed. Among other things they are raped by turkish soldiers, working with the allies.

Belmondo gets killed by the nazis and the film has an open ending.


"la CIOCIARA"
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