Two Women
La ciociara
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During the Allied invasion of Italy in 1944, a fierce widowed Roman shopkeeper flees bombing raids with her devout 12-year-old daughter to her rural hometown in Ciociaria, suffering harrowing wartime violence inside a ruined church while trekking back toward Rome. Vittorio De Sica's devastating war drama that made Sophia Loren the first performer to win an Academy Award for a non-English-language performance.
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Vittorio De Sica
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