A Woman Has Killed

A Woman Has Killed
Directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
Written by Siro Angeli
Giorgio Capitani
Vittorio Cottafavi
Starring Frank Latimore
Lianella Carell
Music by Renzo Rossellini
Cinematography Bitto Albertini
Edited by Renzo Lucidi
Production
company
Nuovissima Film
Distributed by Cinecid (Indipendenti Regionali)
Release date
4 January 1952
Running time
93 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

A Woman Has Killed (Italian:Una Donna ha ucciso) is a 1952 Italian melodrama crime film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. While on a train journey a young woman tells another passenger how she murdered her husband, a British army officer.[1] It is a neorealist film, based on the real story of Lidia Cirillo, who appears in the film.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti.

Cast

  • Frank Latimore as Capt. Roy Prescott
  • Lianella Carell as Anna
  • Alessandro Serbaroli as Larry (as Alex Serbaroli)
  • Vera Palumbo as Carla
  • Umberto Spadaro as Padre di Anna
  • Marika Rowsky
  • Celeste Aída
  • Diego Muni
  • Vincenzo Milazzo
  • Pia De Doses
  • Lidia Cirillo

References

  1. Bayman p.1

Bibliography

  • Bayman, Louis. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
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