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Empty Eyes (1953)

Empty Eyes poster
Original title
Il sole negli occhi
Directed by
Antonio Pietrangeli
Genre
drama film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 43m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 20 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman moves from the countryside to Rome looking for work. She becomes involved with a man who offers her a different life.

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What happens

Empty Eyes (Italian: Il sole negli occhi, lit. 'The Sun in the Eyes') is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli. It stars Gabriele Ferzetti. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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