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Desire (1946)

5.9 | Sep 09, 1946 (IT) | Drama | 01:31

There's a girl like her in every town!

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.

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Massimo Girotti
Nando Mancini
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Carlo Ninchi
Giovanni Mirelli
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Elli Parvo
Paola Previtali (as Elly Parvo)
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Roswita Schmidt
Anna Previtali Mancini