Two Women
(1960)
★ 7.8 IMDb · 588 votes
Year: 1960
Runtime: 101 мин
Country: France, Italy
Director: Витторио Де Сика
Cast: Софи Лорен, Eleonora Brown, Жан-Поль Бельмондо, Раф Валлоне, Carlo Ninchi, Andrea Checchi, Pupella Maggio, Emma Baron, Antonella Della Porta, Bruna Cealti
Plot
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
Cesira is a beautiful widow and a successful grocery-store owner in Rome. WWII is raging, and she fears for her beloved daughter, 13-year-old Rosetta, amid the daily bombings. They travel to the village where Cesira was born, where she believes they will be safer, and they're happy there, even as food dwindles. A young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira, who is too consumed with their survival and her daughter's well-being to return his timid advances. As the Allies advance, Cesira decides to return to Rome--and encounter the horrors of war at last.