LA ROMANA
DIRECTION: Luigi Zampa
Drawn from the novel of A.Moravia
| Original title | La romana |
| In France: La belle romaine (Paris, 01.07.55) - In West Germany: Die Freudlose Strasse (1955 - 100') | |
| Year | 1954 |
| Running time | 91' |
| Nationality | Italy |
| Genre | Drama |
| Production | Excelsa Film / Ponti-De Laurentiis |
| Co-production | Omnium International du Film, Paris (Francia) |
| DIRECTION | LUIGI ZAMPA |
| Subject | Drawn by the homonym novel of Alberto Moravia  |
| Scree-play | Alberto Moravia, Luigi Zampa, Giorgio Bassani, Ennio Flaiano |
Gina Lollobrigida
Adriana
Daniel Gélin
Mino
Franco Fabrizi
Raymond Pellegrin
Pina Piovani
Xenia Valderi
Renato Tontini
Gino Buzzanca
Mariano Bottini
Gianni De Benedetto
Bianca Maria Cerasoli
Ada Colangeli
Vincenzo Milazzo
Riccardo Ferri
Riccardo Garrone
In the Italy of fascism, Adriana (Lollobrigida) is as beautiful as unlucky: after a love disappointment she is on the way of the prostitution from which Bill saver her (Gélin), a partisan that, halted, blows the whistle and kills himself attacked by the regrets. Adriana is agains alone and waits for a child. From the homonym Alberto Moravia’s novel (adapted by the author, by the director, by Giorgio Bassani and by Ennio Flaiano), Zampa has drawn a softened and twilight film, at a midway between the Romantic and the decadent, weighted by too literary digressions. Remaked for the television with Dellera. (P. Mereghetti “Dizionario dei film 1998”, translated by Alice Castoldi)