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A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 1 nomination
Carlo Hintermann
- Extra
- (uncredited)
Antonio Pietrangeli
- Psichiatra
- (uncredited)
Rossana Rory
- Infermiera della casa di cura
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe square Irene and Andrea drive to is the Campidoglio in Rome. The equestrian statue is of Marcus Aurelius, emperor and stoic philosopher.
- GoofsWhen Michele falls down the stairs, his parents rush to the car to get him to the hospital. When his mother finds him, she is wearing the white gown she wore at the dinner. When they first arrive at the hospital, she has a fur coat on. A few hours later, suddenly she has changed into a grey suit.
- Quotes
Giulietta, detta Passerotto: Men are just big babies. You got to act stupid all the time so that they feel they can run the whole thing. They're impossible. And they're good for only one thing, to make love, and only after you show 'em how.
- Alternate versionsIngrid Bergman, Alexander Knox and the other English-speaking actors dub their own voices into English for the English version.
- ConnectionsEdited into Damned! Daney (1991)
- SoundtracksBésame Mucho
Written by Consuelo Velázquez
Featured review
Deeply moving
The second of Ingrid Bergman's collaborations with Ingrid Bergman. Bergman plays a bourgeois woman whose son passes away. She blames herself, and starts looking for a way to rectify her guilt. She finds the answer in her newfound social conscience. Her life of luxury now seems horrid to her when there are so many suffering, and she dedicates her life to others. Meanwhile, her husband (Alexander Knox) doesn't understand it, and, after a particularly long absence when Bergman stays away to nurse a dying prostitute, he and the rest of her family decide to intervene. This is a powerful film about true charity, and it questions the motives of the bourgeois version of charity. This could very well be Ingrid Bergman's best performance. I thought it did underline its themes a bit too explicitly in its final act, and the very final scene went about three steps too far, as I see it. Giulietta Masina co-stars as a poor woman with six children whom Bergman befriends. I might be wrong, but it didn't sound like it was her voice (at least the voice we know from Fellini's films) dubbing this character.
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- Jun 19, 2012
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $9,381
- Runtime1 hour 58 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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