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Sleeping Beauty (1942)

Sleeping Beauty poster
Original title
La bella addormentata
Directed by
Luigi Chiarini
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman's past threatens her present when her old lover returns. The film follows her as she tries to keep her new life and family together.

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What happens

Sleeping Beauty (Italian: La bella addormentata) is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Chiarini and starring Luisa Ferida, Amedeo Nazzari and Osvaldo Valenti. The film was screened at the 1942 Venice Film Festival. It is based on a 1919 play by Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo. It belongs to the movies of the calligrafismo style. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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