Following a rail disaster, a prostitute takes in an orphan but will have to fight to obtain the right to adopt her.
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| Silvana Pampanini | ... |
Mara Gualtieri
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| Franco Fabrizi | ... |
Carlo
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| Camillo Pilotto | ... |
Il commissario Agnelli
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Liliana Gerace | ... |
Elena - la moglie di Giulio
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Olinto Cristina | ... |
Il direttore d'albergo
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Dina Perbellini | ... |
La signora Cesira
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| Paul Muller | ... |
Il viaggiatore polacco sul treno
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Miranda Campa | ... |
La madre superiore
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Renato Vicario | ... |
Il marito di Dina
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Laura Gore | ... |
La cameriera della pensione 'Iris'
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Adriana Danieli | ... |
La moglie del viaggiatore polacco
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Checco Durante | ... |
L'amico di Carlo
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Turi Pandolfini | ... |
Il cancelliere del tribunale
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Giorgio Capecchi | ... |
Il cliente d'albergo
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Maria Grazia Sandri | ... |
Dina da bambina
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Maria Grazia Monaci | ... |
La bambina polacca
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| Marcello Mastroianni | ... |
Giulio Franchi
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Irene Genna | ... |
Dina
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Corrado Annicelli | ... |
Il giocatore di biliardo (uncredited)
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Mirko Baiocchi | ... |
Un cliente d'albergo (uncredited)
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Mirella Di Lauri | ... |
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Franca Dominici | ... |
Suor Cristina (uncredited)
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Anita Durante | ... |
Una cameriera d'albergo (uncredited)
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Riccardo Ferri | ... |
Il cuoco d'albergo (uncredited)
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Irene Galter | ... |
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| Loris Gizzi | ... |
L'avventore del locale notturno (uncredited)
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Lia Lena | ... |
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Salvo Libassi | ... |
Un cameriere d'albergo (uncredited)
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| Mario Passante | ... |
Il direttore dell'albergo della stazione (uncredited)
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Aldo Pini | ... |
Gamberini il poliziotto (uncredited)
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Alberto Plebani | ... |
Il maggiordomo d'albergo (uncredited)
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Isarco Ravaioli | ... |
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Maria Tedeschi | ... |
Una vittima del disastro ferroviario (uncredited)
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Andreina Zani | ... |
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| Maria Zanoli | ... |
Una cameriera d'albergo (uncredited)
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Directed by
| Raffaello Matarazzo | ||
Written by
| Oreste Biancoli | ... | (story) & |
| Aldo De Benedetti | ... | (screenplay) |
Music by
| Renzo Rossellini | ||
Cinematography by
| Marco Scarpelli | ||
Editing by
| Mario Serandrei | ||
Production Design by
| Ottavio Scotti | ||
Set Decoration by
| Antonio Leonardi | ||
Costume Design by
| Giuliano Papi | ||
Makeup Department
| Duilio Giustini | ... | makeup artist |
| Gustavo Sisi | ... | hair stylist |
Production Management
| Eugenio Fontana | ... | production supervisor |
| Paolo Frascà | ... | production manager |
| Rosario Patané | ... | unit manager (as Rosario Patanè) |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Silvio Amadio | ... | assistant director |
Sound Department
| Mario Messina | ... | sound |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Elio Polacchi | ... | camera operator |
Script and Continuity Department
| Rometta Pietrostefani | ... | script supervisor |
Additional Crew
| Angelo Binarelli | ... | production secretary |
| Mario Besesti | ... | italian voice dubbing: Mario Passante (uncredited) |
| Miranda Bonansea | ... | italian voice dubbing: Laura Gore (uncredited) |
| Emilio Cigoli | ... | italian voice dubbing: Franco Fabrizi (uncredited) |
| Dhia Cristiani | ... | italian voice dubbing: Silvana Pampanini (uncredited) |
| Micaela Giustiniani | ... | italian voice dubbing: Irene Genna (uncredited) |
| Pino Locchi | ... | italian voice dubbing: Renato Vicario (uncredited) |
| Renata Marini | ... | italian voice dubbing: Liliana Gerace (uncredited) |
| Giovanna Scotto | ... | italian voice dubbing: Miranda Campa (uncredited) |
| Vinicio Sofia | ... | italian voice dubbing: Checco Durante (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche (ENIC) (1954) (Italy) (theatrical)
- Faso Film (2019) (World-wide)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Fono-Film Ricordi (music published by)
Storyline
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In the 1950s, young prostitute Mara travels by train with a foreign couple and their little girl, but a terrible collision with a freight train kills the parents and Mara takes the child with her. She would like to adopt her, but her social condition prevents her. She places the girl in an orphanage run by nuns and decides to leave her current life, even if it means earning less money and working in exhausting conditions. She also gets rid of Carlo, a kind of small-scale pimp. Mara has a hard time finding a decent job because the morality police keep following her. She appeals to the police commissioner who helped her place the girl in boarding school, and he finds her a factory job. But Mara's past emerges in the person of her first love, Giulio, who is convinced that the child Mara has is his daughter. |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | Italian censorship visa # 16425 delivered on 20 April 1954. See more » |