Terminal Station (1953)

Original title

Stazione Termini

Directed by

Vittorio De Sica

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

Italy, United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 57 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married American woman visits Rome and begins a love affair with an Italian academic. They spend a few hours together at the city's main railway station before she must decide whether to leave her husband.

romantictensemelancholicintimatebittersweetrestrainedyearningatmospheric

What happens

Terminal Station (Italian: Stazione Termini, released in the United States as Indiscretion of an American Wife) is a 1953 romantic drama film directed and produced by Vittorio De Sica and starring Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift and Richard Beymer. It tells the story of the love affair between a married American woman and an Italian academic. The title refers to the Roma Termini railway station in Rome, where the film takes place. The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Terminal Station was the first Hollywood film by Italian director De Sica, as an international coproduction with American mogul David O. Selznick. The collaboration was fraught with constant and severe creative differences that resulted in two different versions of the film, an 89-minute Italian version and a 72-minute American recut version under the alternate title Indiscretion of an American Wife. After this experience, De Sica never again worked with a Hollywood producer, although he later directed English-language films with American actors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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