LA CIOCIARA / TWO WOMAN Trailer Cinema Italiano Festival

This film won Sophia Loren an Academy Award, the first ‘Best Actress in a non-English Language Film’. I believe this is where the world saw beyond her beauty to her extraordinary dramatic talents. Sophia Loren shines in nearly every frame of this Classic Italian film with her interpretation of Rosetta, a fierce and brave woman, trying to protect her daughter in the midst of the War. Working with the master director, Vittorio De Sica (four-time Oscar winner), the film paints a vivid picture of the Italian civilian experience of WW2. More importantly, it shows how women so often bear the brunt of the war’s violence and privations, yet it is women that men turn towards for hope. The story is based on actual events that transpired during the War. The New Zealand 2nd Expeditionary Force and 28th Māori Battalion were also there, literally in the same regions and at the same time depicted in the film. De Sica adapted Alberto Moravia’s novel of the same name, a story that dramatically points out that Italian wom