"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
Luisa Alessandri
First Assistant Director
Giovanni Fago
Second Assistant Director
Checco Rissone
Philippe Arthuys
Special Sound Effects
Giovanni Rossi
Sound
Serse Urbisaglia
Special Effects
Giulia Mafai
Assistant Costume Designer
Cesare Zavattini
Screenplay
Lucio Bompani
Unit Manager
Gianni Cecchin
Alfredo Melidoni
Production Secretary
Ines Bruschi
Script Supervisor
Emilio D'Andria
Assistant Set Decoration
Mario Capriotti
Camera Operator
Pierluigi Praturlon
Still Photographer
Mario Bianchi
Administration
Joseph Nathanson
Jone Tuzi
Line Producer
Alberto Moravia
Novel
Carlo Ponti
Producer
Gábor Pogány
Director of Photography
Adriana Novelli
Editor
Gastone Medin
Production Design
Elio Costanzi
Set Decoration
Costume Design
Giuseppe Annunziata
Makeup Artist
Maria Angelini
Hairstylist
Armando Trovajoli
Original Music Composer