Desire

Desire (1946)

Desiderio

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.

Date of release
1946-09-09
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama
Director
Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini

Casting

Interesting facts

Desire is a 1946 Italian melodrama film directed by Marcello Pagliero and Roberto Rossellini and starring Massimo Girotti, Elli Parvo and Carlo Ninchi.

Production

The film originally went into production in 1943 with Rossellini as director under the title Scalo merci (Freight Yard). Rossellini planned to shoot at the railway yards in San Lorenzo in Rome, but these were hit by a heavy Allied bombing raid the night before filming was due to start.

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