Desiderio
(1946)
Director:
Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini
Writer:
Rosario Leone, Giuseppe De Santis, Roberto Rossellini, Diego Calcagno, Anna Benvenuti, Marcello Pagliero, Guglielmo Santangelo
Cast:
Massimo Girotti, Carlo Ninchi, Elli Parvo
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.