Empty Eyes (1953)
Il sole negli occhi
A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
- Date of release
- 1953-09-18
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (20)
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Antonio Pietrangeli
Casting
- Gabriele Ferzetti — Fernando Maestrelli
- Irène Galter — Celestina
- Pina Bottin — Marcella
- Maria Pia Trepaoli — Armida
- Scilla Vannucci — Italia
- Anna Maria Dossena — Elvira Palmucci
- Aristide Baghetti — Professor Nicotera
- Fara Libassi — Edvige
- Attilio Martella — Vittorio Emanuele Lorusso
- Turi Pandolfini — Macaluso
- Francesco Mulè — Marcucci, Fernando's colleague
- Paolo Stoppa — Egisto Palmucci
Interesting facts
Empty Eyes is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli. It stars Gabriele Ferzetti. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."
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