
When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns her that Gino has escaped from prison and is seeking revenge. She rejects his offer to protect her. Gino finds Nives, mourning the drowning death of their son. He surrenders himself to the police and then walks at Nives' side... (Full plot summary below)
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When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns her that Gino has escaped from prison and is seeking revenge. She rejects his offer to protect her. Gino finds Nives, mourning the drowning death of their son. He surrenders himself to the police and then walks at Nives' side in the funeral procession.
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| User ReviewG. A. SProducer, Carlo Ponti cajoled Mario Soldati into directing Sophia Loren in "La Donna del Fiume," ("The River Girl" aka "Woman of the River") which he hoped would do for Loren what "Bitter Rice" had done for his producing partner's (Dino De Laurentiis) future wife Silvana Mangano. A post-neorealist melodrama set among the exploited poorest of the poor in northern Italy, casts Loren as a voluptuous girl in an eel cannery who ultimately ends up cutting cane at the mouth of the Po River. She sports ill-fitting shorts, rustic sweaters, and sun hats; although the film was not a success, it provide the press some sexy pin-ups of Loren, the title of ""Sophia the Sizzler" in the United States and give Pier Paolo Pasolini one of his first scriptwriting credits. On the last day of shooting, Carlo Ponti visited the set and offered Sophia a ring - they were married two years later. |
| User ReviewDeanne GWhat a miserable story all round. If you want to feel depressed, watch this. |