Desire
Released: September 9, 1946Runtime: 91 minLanguage: IT
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
as Nando Mancini
Edvin Adolphson
as Carsten Berg
Carlo Ninchi
as Giovanni Mirelli
Carl Deurell
as Johannes Berg
Elli Parvo
as Paola Previtali
Gunn Wallgren
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Sven Magnusson
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Roswita Schmidt
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Olof Winnerstrand
as Appelgren
Lia Corelli
as Elena
Hilda Borgstrom
as Mrs. Quist
Francesco Grandjacquet
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