Anna (1951)

Directed by

Alberto Lattuada

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman named Anna becomes a nun to escape her troubled past. Her old lover Andrea reappears, and a dangerous man named Vittorio forces her to confront the sins she tried to leave behind.

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What happens

Anna is a 1951 Italian melodrama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun, Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her, and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path. Silvana Mangano's real sister, Patrizia Mangano, acts as Anna's sister in the film. Sophia Loren has a small uncredited role as a nightclub assistant. Future film directors Franco Brusati and Dino Risi co-wrote the script. The film features the songs "Non Dimenticar" and "El Negro Zumbón", a baião popularised in the US as "Anna" and recorded much later by Pink Martini. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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