Two Women

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

Two Women
Italian theatrical release poster
ItalianLa ciociara
Directed byVittorio De Sica
Screenplay by
Based onTwo Women
by Alberto Moravia
Produced byCarlo Ponti
Starring
CinematographyGábor Pogány
Edited byAdriana Novelli
Music byArmando Trovajoli
Production
companies
  • Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
  • Les Films Marceau
  • Cocinor
  • Société Générale de Cinématographie
Distributed by
  • Titanus (Italy)
  • Cocinor-Marceau (France)
Release dates
  • 22 December 1960 (1960-12-22) (Milan premiere)
  • 23 December 1960 (1960-12-23) (Italy)
  • 17 May 1961 (1961-05-17) (France)
Running time
100 minutes
Countries
  • Italy
  • France
Languages
  • Italian
  • German
Budget$850,000
Box office
  • $7.2 million (US and Canada)[1]
  • 2,030,033 admissions (France)[2]
  • 9,662,000 admissions (Italy)[3]

Two Women (Italian: La ciociara [la tʃoˈtʃaːra], rough literal translation "The Woman from Ciociaria") is a 1960 war drama 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. 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.

  1. ^ Balio, Tino (5 November 2010). The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299247935.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference BOS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Sophia Loren Box Office". Box Office Story (in French).
  4. ^ "1952: Il caso delle 'marocchinate' al Parlamento". Retrieved 9 December 2017.