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.
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DIRECTOR
Vittorio De Sica
SCREENPLAY
Cesare Zavattini
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Gábor Pogány
EDITOR
Adriana Novelli
ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSER
Armando Trovajoli
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Gastone Medin
PRODUCER
Carlo Ponti
ADMINISTRATION
Mario Bianchi
ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER
Giulia Mafai
ASSISTANT SET DECORATION
Emilio D'Andria
CAMERA OPERATOR
Mario Capriotti
COSTUME DESIGN
Elio Costanzi
FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Luisa Alessandri
HAIRSTYLIST
Maria Angelini
LINE PRODUCER
Jone Tuzi
MAKEUP ARTIST
Giuseppe Annunziata
NOVEL
Alberto Moravia
PRODUCTION SECRETARY
Alfredo Melidoni
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR
Ines Bruschi
SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Checco Rissone
Giovanni Fago
SET DECORATION
Elio Costanzi
SOUND
Giovanni Rossi
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Joseph Nathanson
Serse Urbisaglia
SPECIAL SOUND EFFECTS
Philippe Arthuys
STILL PHOTOGRAPHER
Pierluigi Praturlon
UNIT MANAGER
Gianni Cecchin
Lucio Bompani
Academy Awards
1962Winner: Best Actress
Silver Nugget For The Best Foreign Film
1961Winner: Silver Nugget For The Best Foreign Film