Synopsis
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.
Cast

Sophia Loren
Cesira

Eleonora Brown
Rosetta

Jean-Paul Belmondo
Michele Di Libero

Raf Vallone
Giovanni

Carlo Ninchi
Filippo, il padre di Michele

Andrea Checchi
un fasciste

Pupella Maggio
un fermier

Emma Baron
Maria

Antonella Della Porta
La madre impazzita

Bruna Cealti
une évacuée

Luciano Pigozzi
Scimmione

Franco Balducci
il tedesco nel pagliaio

Mario Frera
Peppuccio

Curt Lowens
ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea
Luciana Cortellesi
Tony Calio
Remo Galavotti
Elsa Mancini
Giuseppina Ruggeri
Luigi Terribile
Antonio Gastaldi
Carolina Carbonaro
Alberto Castaldi
Lawyer (uncredited)

Vincenzo Musolino
Il piccolo Alessandro (uncredited)
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