

Desiderio
There's a girl like her in every town!
September 9, 1946
1h 31m
IT
Marcello Pagliero
Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.

Massimo Girotti
Nando Mancini

Carlo Ninchi
Giovanni Mirelli

Elli Parvo
Paola Previtali

Roswita Schmidt


Giuseppe De Santis, Roberto Rossellini, Diego Calcagno
11
Anna Previtali Mancini

Lia Corelli
Elena

Francesco Grandjacquet
Riccardo

Jucci Kellerman
Lia

Spartaco Conversi
Cast

Giovanna Scotto
Elvira Previtali, Paola and Anna's Mother

Astorre Pederzoli
(uncredited)
Sovrania Film
IT
Imperator Film
IT
SAFIR
IT