"A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them."
Sophia Loren
as Cesira
Jean-Paul Belmondo
as Michele Di Libero
Raf Vallone
as Giovanni
Eleonora Brown
as Rosetta
Carlo Ninchi
as Filippo, il padre di Michele
Andrea Checchi
as un fasciste
Pupella Maggio
as un fermier
Emma Baron
as Maria
Antonella Della Porta
as La madre impazzita
Bruna Cealti
as une évacuée
Luciano Pigozzi
as Scimmione
Franco Balducci
as il tedesco nel pagliaio
Mario Frera
as Peppuccio
Curt Lowens
as ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea
Luciana Cortellesi
as
Tony Calio
Remo Galavotti
Elsa Mancini
Giuseppina Ruggeri
Luigi Terribile
Antonio Gastaldi
Carolina Carbonaro
Alberto Castaldi
as Lawyer (uncredited)
Vincenzo Musolino
as Il piccolo Alessandro (uncredited)
Ettore Mattia
as Il passeggero sul treno (uncredited)
Renato Salvatori
as Florindo (uncredited)
Vittorio De Sica
Director
Serse Urbisaglia
Special Effects
Luisa Alessandri
First Assistant Director
Philippe Arthuys
Special Sound Effects
Checco Rissone
Second Assistant Director
Giovanni Fago
Giulia Mafai
Assistant Costume Designer
Giovanni Rossi
Sound
Mario Bianchi
Administration
Joseph Nathanson
Pierluigi Praturlon
Still Photographer
Gianni Cecchin
Unit Manager
Ines Bruschi
Script Supervisor
Jone Tuzi
Line Producer
Lucio Bompani
Alfredo Melidoni
Production Secretary
Emilio D'Andria
Assistant Set Decoration
Mario Capriotti
Camera Operator
Cesare Zavattini
Screenplay
Carlo Ponti
Producer
Adriana Novelli
Editor
Gábor Pogány
Director of Photography
Giuseppe Annunziata
Makeup Artist
Gastone Medin
Production Design
Alberto Moravia
Novel
Elio Costanzi
Costume Design
Maria Angelini
Hairstylist
Set Decoration
Armando Trovajoli
Original Music Composer