"A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them."
Sophia Loren
as Cesira
Eleonora Brown
as Rosetta
Jean-Paul Belmondo
as Michele Di Libero
Raf Vallone
as Giovanni
Carlo Ninchi
as Filippo, il padre di Michele
Andrea Checchi
as un fasciste
Pupella Maggio
as un fermier
Emma Baron
as Maria
Antonella Della Porta
as La madre impazzita
Bruna Cealti
as une évacuée
Luciano Pigozzi
as Scimmione
Franco Balducci
as il tedesco nel pagliaio
Mario Frera
as Peppuccio
Curt Lowens
as ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea
Luciana Cortellesi
as
Tony Calio
Remo Galavotti
Elsa Mancini
Giuseppina Ruggeri
Luigi Terribile
Antonio Gastaldi
Carolina Carbonaro
Alberto Castaldi
as Lawyer (uncredited)
Vincenzo Musolino
as Il piccolo Alessandro (uncredited)
Ettore Mattia
as Il passeggero sul treno (uncredited)
Renato Salvatori
as Florindo (uncredited)
Vittorio De Sica
Director
Serse Urbisaglia
Special Effects
Checco Rissone
Second Assistant Director
Giovanni Fago
Giulia Mafai
Assistant Costume Designer
Giovanni Rossi
Sound
Philippe Arthuys
Special Sound Effects
Luisa Alessandri
First Assistant Director
Ines Bruschi
Script Supervisor
Mario Capriotti
Camera Operator
Joseph Nathanson
Pierluigi Praturlon
Still Photographer
Jone Tuzi
Line Producer
Mario Bianchi
Administration
Cesare Zavattini
Screenplay
Lucio Bompani
Unit Manager
Alfredo Melidoni
Production Secretary
Emilio D'Andria
Assistant Set Decoration
Gianni Cecchin
Gábor Pogány
Director of Photography
Adriana Novelli
Editor
Alberto Moravia
Novel
Gastone Medin
Production Design
Elio Costanzi
Costume Design
Carlo Ponti
Producer
Set Decoration
Maria Angelini
Hairstylist
Giuseppe Annunziata
Makeup Artist
Armando Trovajoli
Original Music Composer