Sophia Loren and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Two Women (1960 Movie)

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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 centers on Cesira (Loren), a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and Rosetta (Brown), her devoutly religious twelve-year-old daughter, during World War II. To escape the Allied bombing of Rome, Cesira and her daughter flee southern Lazio for her native Ciociaria, a rural, mountainous province of central Italy.

After they arrive at Ciociaria, Cesira attracts the attention of a young local intellectual with communist sympathies named Michele (Jean-Paul Belmondo). However, Michele is eventually taken prisoner by a company of German soldiers, who hope to use him as a guide to the mountainous terrain. Later, Cesira and Rosetta learn that he has been shot and killed by the same soldiers who took him hostage.

After the Italian liberation, mother and daughter decide to go back to Rome. After experiencing mild harassment and propositioning throughout their journey, they fall subject to an unexpected tragedy. As they rest in a bombed-out church, they are captured and gang raped by Goumiers (Moroccan allied soldiers) serving in the Free French forces under Alphonse Juin. Rosetta is particularly traumatized and has conflicting feelings for her mother. Eventually the two succeed in re-establishing the bond that linked them.

Cast Sophia Loren - Cesira Jean-Paul Belmondo - Michele Di Libero, a young communist Eleonora Brown - Rosetta Carlo Ninchi - Filippo, Michele's father Raf Vallone - Giovanni Andrea Checchi - A fascist Pupella Maggio - A peasant Emma Baron - Maria Bruna Cealti - A refugee Antonella Della Porta - A crazy mother Mario Frera Franco Balducci - A German in the haystack Luciana Cortellesi Curt Lowens Tony Calio Remo Galavotti

The film won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Sophia Loren. This was the first time an acting Oscar had been given for a non-English-speaking performance. Loren also won the award for Best Actress at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Loren won 22 international awards for Two Women.

La Ciociara was remade for television in 1988. It was adapted by Diana Gould, Lidia Ravera, Dino Risi and Bernardino Zapponi. It was directed by Risi and starred Loren, Robert Loggia, Leonardo Ferrantini, Dario Ghirardi and Sydney Penny.

Sophia Loren, OMRI (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; 20 September 1934) is an Italian actress.

In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance. Loren has won 50 international awards, including an Oscar, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Laurel Award. Her other films include: Houseboat (1958), El Cid (1961), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), Marriage Italian Style (1964), A Special Day (1977). She has received critical and commercial success in movies for home box-office such as Courage (1986) and in American blockbusters such as Grumpier Old Men (1995), and Nine (2009). In 1994 she starred in Robert Altman's Ready to Wear, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination in 1995. The same year she received the Cecil B. de Mille award for lifetime achievements.

In 1999, Loren was listed by the American Film Institute on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars as #21 of 25 American female screen legends of all time. In 2002, she was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) at its annual Anniversary Gala and was inducted into its Italian American Hall of Fame. In 2009, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized her as "Italy's Most Awarded Actress."

In 1991, the Republic of France awarded her a Distinction of la Légion d'honneur (the Legion of Honor) with the grade of Chevalier (Knight). In 1997, Loren was invested Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic). In 2010, she was awarded the Praemium Imperiale by the Imperial Family of Japan on behalf of the Japan Art Association.

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[ivantyevbrtic]

watch at bit.ly\wyfylf

[MrPN1963]

Sensitive director.

[ppereida]

I love love love her she's my older twin. I swear i look like her. Must be them genes ha!!

[janeaustinadmirer]

@docwillems Thank for educating us on the atrocities that were committed. I had no idea. War is not about glory. It is about death and destruction.  Enough. It is time for peace.

[janeaustinadmirer]

@Savadorason1 It's true what you say. In the deep recesses of our past, our ancestors did terrible things. Men and women both.

[OmegaTomifm153]

soso niemand deutsch hihi

[toshiba6079]

good movie

merci.

[toshiba6079]

Merci/°)

[Savadorason1]

From the cavemen to now, gangs, armies have invaded, beaten, raped n killd all over the planet. No race or group is innocent. Many of u would b stunned 2 c your ancesters histories.

[snaforfun]

@docwillems get lost.. first of all you should trial their commanders who were WHITE ewesterners themselves

second ,how may girls and women the German and Italian troops raped ww2 ? and in colonies?

you piece of junk .. bad apples exist in every army . and the Germans and Italians Raped and killed everywhere too

stop your filthy hate. Italians Raped girls and women also way b4 that ... in their African colonies as well...