Desire
1946 · 91 min
Drama
★ 5.2Paola, 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.
Crew
- Director Marcello Pagliero
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Screenplay Giuseppe De Santis
- Screenplay Roberto Rossellini
- Screenplay Diego Calcagno
- Screenplay Rosario Leone
- Screenplay Marcello Pagliero
- Screenplay Guglielmo Santangelo
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 — Marcello Pagliero
- Director — Roberto Rossellini
- Screenplay — Giuseppe De Santis
- Screenplay — Roberto Rossellini
- Screenplay — Diego Calcagno
- Screenplay — Rosario Leone
- Screenplay — Marcello Pagliero
- Screenplay — Guglielmo Santangelo
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