Two Women

Two Women (also known as La Ciociara) is a 1960 Italian language film which tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. When both are raped, the mother suffers a nervous breakdown. It stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown[?], Carlo Ninchi[?] and Andrea Checchi[?].

The movie was adapted by Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini from the novel by Alberto Moravia[?]. It was directed by De Sica.

The movie won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Sophia Loren). It is the first time an actor won an acting award for a non-English-speaking role.

La Ciociara was remade for television in 1988. It was adapted by Diana Gould[?], Lidia Ravera[?], Dino Risi[?] and Bernardino Zapponi[?]. It was directed by Risi and starred Loren, Robert Loggia[?], Leonardo Ferrantini[?], Dario Ghirardi[?] and Sydney Penny[?].