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Desire (1946)
Directed by Roberto Rossellini, Marcello Pagliero
“There's a girl like her in every town!”
Drama · 1h 31m
Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.
Cast
Massimo Girotti
Nando Mancini
Carlo Ninchi
Giovanni Mirelli
Elli Parvo
Paola Previtali
Roswita Schmidt
Anna Previtali Mancini
Lia Corelli
Elena
Francesco Grandjacquet
Riccardo
J
Jucci Kellerman
Lia
Spartaco Conversi
G
Giovanna Scotto
Elvira Previtali, Paola and Anna's Mother
A
Astorre Pederzoli
(uncredited)
T
Tito Rinaldi
(uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Roberto Rossellini, Marcello Pagliero
- Screenplay
- Roberto Rossellini, Rosario Leone, Giuseppe De Santis, Diego Calcagno, Marcello Pagliero, Guglielmo Santangelo
- Director of Photography
- Rodolfo Lombardi, Ugo Lombardi
- Original Music Composer
- Renzo Rossellini
- Editor
- Marcello Pagliero
- Producer
- Federico D'Avack, Franco Magli, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini
Details
- Original title
- Desiderio
- Release date
- 1946-09-09
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- Sovrania Film, Imperator Film, SAFIR