LA CIOCIARA (TWO WOMEN)

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Writers: Alberto Moravia (novel), Cesare Zavattini

Stars: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone

Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second world war. They travel to the village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village, the mother does everything to protect Rosetta. However, on one occasion they both get raped by soldiers hiding in a church. This cruel event is too much for the always powerful fighting Cesira and she suffers from a breakdown. During their stay in the village, a young intellectual, Michele falls in love with Cesira who does not know how to reply to the advances of such a gentleman.

NUNTA MUTA

NUNTA MUTA (SILENT WEDDING)

Director:  Horatiu Malaele

Writers:  Adrian Lustig, Horatiu Malaele

Stars:  Meda Andreea Victor, Alexandru Potocean, Valentin Teodosiu

A small town. In 1953, a happy young couple about to be wed. A tight community ready to celebrate this happy event. All is well. Until a number of militant communists enter the town to declare a period of national mourning after the death of Stalin. After that the wedding party is forbidden and the community searches for a way to have it go on anyway. The solution is as dared as inventive as fun: the feast will go on but everything, including the music, will be in mime.