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56% Critic Match
Desire
“There's a girl like her in every town!”
5.6 / 10• 1946• 1h 31m•NR• Italian
Drama
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Massimo Girotti
Nando Mancini
Lead
Carlo Ninchi
Giovanni Mirelli
Elli Parvo
Paola Previtali
Roswita Schmidt
Anna Previtali Mancini
LC
Lia Corelli
Elena
Francesco Grandjacquet
Riccardo
JK
Jucci Kellerman
Lia
Spartaco Conversi
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What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Roberto Rossellini's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Desire is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
