A Woman Has Killed
A Woman Has Killed | |
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Directed by | Vittorio Cottafavi |
Written by | Giorgio Capitani Vittorio Cottafavi |
Starring | Frank Latimore Lianella Carell |
Cinematography | Bitto Albertini |
Edited by | Renzo Lucidi |
Music by | Renzo Rossellini |
Production company | Nuovissima Film |
Distributed by | Cinecid (Indipendenti Regionali) |
Release date | 4 January 1952 |
Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
A Woman Has Killed (Italian: Una donna ha ucciso) is a 1952 Italian melodrama crime film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. While on a train journey a young woman tells another passenger how she murdered her husband, a British army officer.[1] It is a neorealist film, based on the real story of Lidia Cirillo, who appears in the film.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti.
Cast[]
- Frank Latimore as Capt. Roy Prescott
- Lianella Carell as Anna
- as Larry (as Alex Serbaroli)
- as Carla
- Umberto Spadaro as Padre di Anna
- Lidia Cirillo
References[]
- ^ Bayman p.1
Bibliography[]
- Bayman, Louis. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
External links[]
Categories:
- Italian-language films
- 1952 films
- 1952 crime drama films
- Italian films
- Italian crime drama films
- 1950s Italian-language films
- Films directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
- Mariticide in fiction
- Films scored by Renzo Rossellini
- Melodramas
- Italian black-and-white films
- 1950s Italian film stubs