Desire

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.

Directors

Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini

Writers

Giuseppe De Santis, Roberto Rossellini, Diego Calcagno, Rosario Leone, Marcello Pagliero, Guglielmo Santangelo

Released

September 9, 1946

Language

Italian