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1961 |
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FOREIGN
WAR
WORLD WAR II
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Italy/ France |
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BW |
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| Length: |
110 |
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An Italian mother (Sophia Loren, pictured) and her daughter (Eleanora Brown) are raped by Allied Moroccan soldiers during WW2.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Originally, the idea was for Sophia Loren to play the daughter; but Anna Magnani flatly refused to play Loren's mother. Redesigned as an old-fashioned, melodramatic star vehicle for Loren, the film won her the first ever Oscar for a non-American actress in a foreign-language film. Too bad that all the characters around her are so grievously under-written.
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, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleanora Brown