La ciociara (1960)

Post by **Emiliano** » 20/11/2022, 7:22

English title: Two Women

Director

Storyline

Cesira, a poor widow, together with her beautiful and naive thirteen-year-old daughter Rosetta, try to survive in the capital during the world war. While the German army prepares to enter Rome, the defenseless couple, to escape the bombing, flees and finds refuge with her daughter in Sant'Eufemia, her country of origin. There, they have to witness other tragic events, because the peace is again disturbed by the landing of the Americans at Anzio in January 1944 and the situation tended to worsen more and more, until the two women, finally walking towards the capital, are surrounded by a group of Moroccan allied soldiers.

Cast

Credited
Uncredited
Unidentified #1 (Road to home)
Unidentified #2 (Sant'Eufemia)
Unidentified #3 (Comeback to Rome)

Post by **Emiliano** » 20/11/2022, 15:25

Credited cast

Italian print. In credit order.

Sophia Loren
as Cesira

Jean-Paul Belmondo
as Michele

Eleonora Brown
as Rosetta

Carlo Ninchi
as Filippo, Michele's father

Andrea Checchi
as Fascist with pistol escaping in disguise

Pupella Maggio
as Profiteering countrywoman

Emma Baron
as Maria, Michele's mother

Bruna Cealti
as Evacuated woman

Antonella Della Porta
as Mother who lost her mind

Mario Frera
as Peppuccio

Franco Balducci
as Chief of the german soldiers in the haystack

Curt Lowens
as German battery commander in lawyer's home

Luciano Pigozzi
as "Scimmione", the prevaricator fascist

Luciana Cortellesi; Elsa Mancini; Giuseppina Ruggeri; Carolina Carbonaro
Unidentified - It seems that these actresses were only credited in this film. It is likely that they are simply locals recruited by De Sica.

Tony Caliò; Remo Galavotti; Luigi Terribile; Antonio Gastaldi
Unidentified - It seems that these actors were only credited in this film. It is likely that they are simply locals recruited by De Sica.

Raf Vallone
as Giovanni
(and with the participation of)

Post by **Emiliano** » 20/11/2022, 17:44

Uncredited cast

In order of appearence.

"Old lady who smells a niff"
as Old lady who took refuge in the shop

Ettore Mattia
as Train passenger

Mario Meniconi
as Train conductor

Enzo Ricciardi
as Train passenger

Vincenzo Musolino
as Alessandro, profiteering countrywoman's son

Renato Salvatori
as Florindo, the truck driver

Post by **Emiliano** » 20/11/2022, 22:09

Unidentified cast #1

Road to home.

Maybe a second role for Mario Meniconi?

Post by **Emiliano** » 20/11/2022, 22:13

Unidentified #2

Sant'Eufemia.

The kid looks like Antonio Ruiz Escaño, but the nose don't match and I don't think it's him.

Post by **Emiliano** » 20/11/2022, 22:14

Unidentified #3

Comeback to Rome.

Post by **PeplumParadise** » 21/06/2023, 23:29

The guy leaning out of the train in 8 could maybe be "Scarecrow"?

Post by **FatmanDan** » 22/06/2023, 1:13

not "Museum Wax Figure"?