Desire (1946)
There's a girl like her in every town!
5.6(11)1h 31mSeptember 9, 1946
Marcello Pagliero
Director
Rosario Leone, Giuseppe De Santis, Roberto Rossellini
Writers
Rate
Diary
Overview
Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.
