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Sophia Loren classics, Compagnia Cinematografica Champion

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Sophia Loren classics

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Compagnia Cinematografica Champion

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Two women: In Rome, during WWII, escaping the allied bombings, Cesira and her 13-year old daughter, Rosetta, are traveling to the home town where Cesira was born. During these difficult times, Cesira fearlessly attemps to protect her daughter from atrocities from the war. Soldiers hiding in the village church rape both women which drives Cesira into a mental breakdownYesterday, Today and Tomorrow: (Story 1) Adelina sells black-market cigarettes in Naples, is married to the unemployed Carmine, and faces a jail sentence. She can avoid it as long as she's pregnant. Several years and seven children later Carmine is exhausted, so jail looks inescapable as does her contempt for Carmine. (Story 2) In Milan, Anna drives a Rolls, is bored and picks up a writer. She talks dreamily of running off with him until he dents her car. (Story 3) Mara, a Roman call girl, turns the head of a naive seminarian, prompting a run-in with his grandmother and a vow of abstinence. Mara's fizzy lover from Bologna grows more and more impatient

Two women (b&w ; 119 min.) / Les Films Marceau ; Cocinor ; Societe General de Cinematographie ; produced by Carlo Ponti ; adaptation and screenplay by Cesare Zavattini ; directed by Vittorio De Sica -- Yesterday, today and tomorrow (color ; 99 min.) / Les Films Concordia ; produced by (all 3 stories) Carlo Ponti ; (Adelina) story and screenplay by Eduardo De Filippo ; screenplay by Isabella Quarantotti ; (Anna) screenplay by Alberto Moravia, Cesare Zavattini, Bella Billa, Lorenza Zanuso ; (Mara) story and screenplay by Cesare Zavattini ; director (all 3 stories), Vittorio De Sica

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