Desire

There's a girl like her in every town!

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.

• Release date
• September 9, 1946
• Runtime
• 91 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Roberto Rossellini

Cast

Massimo Girotti Nando Mancini Carlo Ninchi Giovanni Mirelli Elli Parvo Paola Previtali Roswita Schmidt Anna Previtali Mancini Lia Corelli Elena Francesco Grandjacquet Riccardo

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Jucci Kellerman Lia Spartaco Conversi