“A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night”: A Powerful Look At the Exploitation of Women
While the director didn't set out to make a feminist film, "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night" reads as a reclamation of female power in a patriarchal society.
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Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
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Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
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Genre:Comedy
Written By:Aldo De Benedetti, Nicola Manzari, Federico Fellini, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Tullio Pinelli, Ruggero Maccari
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Runtime:98 minutes
Studio:CEI Incom, Società Italiana Cines
Cast
Giorgio Pàstina
Director
Elsa Merlini
Maria
Gino Cervi
Filiberto 'Berto' Morucchi
Giulietta Masina
Ermelinda
Alberto Sordi
Donato
Eduardo De Filippo
Raffaele, il professore di matematica
Titina De Filippo
La padrona di Ermelinda
Vittorio De Sica
Leonardo Leonardi
Aldo Fabrizi
Il commendatore Giovanni Marchetti
Isa Miranda
Angela Leonardi
Carlo Ninchi
Il sacerdote
Bella Starace Sainati
Celestina, la guardiana
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