Adelina (Sophia Loren) sells black-market cigarettes on the streets of Naples to support her unemployed husband Carmine (Marcello Mastroianni). Caught by the police, and with a jail sentence hanging over her head, desperation sets in. She learns that she can avoid prison as long as she's pregnant. Several years and seven children later, Carmine is exhausted, so jail looks inescapable as does Adelina's contempt for Carmine. In Milan, our second protagonist, Anna (Loren), is bored and wealthy, drives a Rolls Royce, and is having an affair with a writer (Mastroianni). She talks dreamily of running off with him, that is until one day he crashes her car... In the third and final vignette, Loren plays Mara, a call girl from Rome, who turns the head of a naive young man training to become a Priest, prompting a run-in with his self-righteous grandmother and a vow of abstinence. Features Loren's notorious striptease, which was recreated years later by Robert Altman in Prêt-à-Porter.
English Dolby Digital 1.0, Italian Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
"Sophia, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" candid intimate interview of Loren with exclusive footage of her family, close friends and collaborators such as Woody Allen, Giorgio Armani and others
"Vittorio D." Tribute to multi-awarded maestro filmmaker De Sica, a milestone of Cinema history. With participation from Clint Eastwood, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and many others
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