2 Movies Starring Gabriella Pallotta

The Roof

The Roof

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-05-12

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

91 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (251 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home.

Il Grido

Il Grido

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-06-22

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, USA

Runtime:

116 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (2779 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Michelangelo Antonioni

Elio Bartolini

Ennio De Concini

Michelangelo Antonioni (idea)

Fullplot:

After living seven years with the mechanic Aldo, having a daughter with him, the simple woman Irma is informed that her absent husband had just died in Sydney. She becomes upset when Aldo proposes to marry her and she tells him that she is going to leave him. Unable to explain how much he loves her, Aldo takes their daughter Rosina and travels with her, meeting different women in different places, trying to establish a new relationship and fill the emptiness of his sentimental life. He visits his former lover Elvia; he meets and lives with the widow Virginia, who owns a gas station; he lives with the prostitute Andreina. But these relationships never complete the needy Aldo.

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