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.

Sophia Loren
as Cesira

Jean-Paul Belmondo
as Michele Di Libero

Raf Vallone
as Giovanni

Eleonora Brown
as Rosetta

Carlo Ninchi
as Filippo, il padre di Michele

Andrea Checchi
as un fasciste

Pupella Maggio
as un fermier

Emma Baron
as Maria

Antonella Della Porta
as La madre impazzita

Bruna Cealti
as une évacuée
CinemaSerf
I think you could dress Sophia Loren in an old sack and she'd still ooze a personality and charisma that serves her really well in this heart-rending wartime story. She is the widowed "Cesira" who, with bombs falling all around them, decides it's best to get her young daughter "Rosetta" (Eleonora Br...