2 women sophia loren movie

1960 film by Vittorio De Sica

This article is about the 1960 Italian film. For other uses, see Two Women (disambiguation).

Two Women (Italian: La ciociara[latʃoˈtʃaːra], rough literal translation "The Woman from Ciociaria") is a 1960 wardrama 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.

Two Women (1960) - IMDb

The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown and Raf Vallone. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. The story is fictional but based on actual events of 1944 in Rome and rural Lazio, during the Marocchinate.^[4]

Loren's performance received critical acclaim, earning her an Academy Award for Best Actress, among other accolades.

Plot

Cesira (Loren) is a widowed shopkeeper, raising her devoutly religious twelve-year-old daughter, Rosetta (Brown), in Rome during World War II. Following Divorce Italian Style CYDE