Directed by:
Carlo Di PalmaCinematography:
Dario Di PalmaComposer:
Riz OrtolaniCast:
Monica Vitti, Isa Danieli, Michele Placido, Armando Brancia, Anna Bonaiuto, Rosita Torosh, Stefano Satta Flores, Franco Diogene, Luciana Turina, Denise Péron (more)Plots(1)
Teresa Numa, born into a large family in Anzio, is obliged to leave home and look for work. After ten different jobs in seven years, she ends up as a kitchen maid in the house of the stationmaster, Cavalier Nardecchia, at Campo di Carne. Here she gives birth to a son, but only manages to marry Sisto, the child’s father, some years later. As her husband, an ardent Fascist, is killed in the course of the Allied landing in Sicily, Teresa moves temporarily to Rome, where she starts to live by her wits and gets mixed up with some petty thieves. Sent to prison just before Liberation, she tries her luck on her release in Livorno, Genoa and Milan, but in vain. Returning to Rome, she ends up first of all back in jail and then even in a mental asylum. She hitches up with Tonino Santità, driver of a government minister, and then the thief Ercoletto. Released from the criminal asylum, old and worn out, she goes back to Anzio to savor a bit of illusory happiness in the fields full of flowers she knew as a child. (Venice International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Monica Vitti
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