Desire

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.

• Marcello PaglieroDirector
• Roberto RosselliniDirector
• Giuseppe De SantisScreenplay
• Roberto RosselliniScreenplay
• Diego CalcagnoScreenplay
• Renzo RosselliniOriginal Music Composer
• Rosario LeoneScreenplay
• Marcello PaglieroScreenplay
• Guglielmo SantangeloScreenplay

• Massimo GirottiNando Mancini
• Carlo NinchiGiovanni Mirelli
• Elli ParvoPaola Previtali
• Roswita SchmidtAnna Previtali Mancini
• Lia CorelliElena
• Francesco GrandjacquetRiccardo
• Jucci KellermanLia
• Spartaco ConversiCast
• Giovanna ScottoElvira Previtali, Paola and Anna's Mother
• Astorre Pederzoli(uncredited)
• Tito Rinaldi(uncredited)