Behind Closed Shutters (1951)
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Marked Women - They hunt by night and are hunted by day!
Middle class Sandra, engaged to be married and living in Turin, searches for her missing sister that is estranged from her family. For this, she enters the morally degraded back allies of the port city of Genoa and is exposed to the world of sex trafficking.
- Date of release
- 1951-03-08
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Luigi Comencini
Casting
- Massimo Girotti — Ingegnere Roberto
- Eleonora Rossi Drago — Sandra
- Giulietta Masina — Pippo
- Liliana Gerace — Lucia Ferri
- Adriana Sivieri — Iris
- Octave Senoret — Edmondo
- Cesarina Gheraldi — Gianna
- Antonio Nicotra — Barale
- Renato Baldini — Primavera
- Goliarda Sapienza — La prostituta religiosa
- Piero Pastore — Cinque
- Lina Acconci — (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Behind Closed Shutters is a 1951 Italian crime-melodrama directed by Luigi Comencini and starring Massimo Girotti, Eleonora Rossi Drago, and Giulietta Masina. The film follows Sandra (Drago) as she searches for her missing sister, venturing into the seedy underworld of Genoa.
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