The read
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes60%
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
21 audience votes
Key crew
- Vittorio De SicaDirector
- Cesare ZavattiniWriter
- Rafael J. SalviaWriter
Cast
- Florinda BolkanClara Mataro
- Renato SalvatoriFranco Mataro, the husband
- Daniel QuenaudLuigi, Clara's lover
- José María PradaCiranni
- Teresa GimperaGina
- Hugo BlancoThe brother in law
- Julia PeñaEdvige
- Miranda CampaNurse Guidotti
- Angela CardileThe redhead
- Anna CarenaThe mother in law
- Monica GuerritoreMaria
- Maria MizarNurse Garin
Stills
Themes
italymountaintuberculosis