Five Branded Women
Appearance
Five Branded Women | |
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Directed by | Martin Ritt |
Written by | Ivo Perilli Michael Wilson Paul Jarrico Ugo Pirro (novel) |
Produced by | Dino De Laurentiis |
Starring | Silvana Mangano Vera Miles Barbara Bel Geddes Jeanne Moreau Richard Basehart Harry Guardino Steve Forrest Alex Nicol Carla Gravina Van Heflin |
Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
Music by | Angelo Francesco Lavagnino |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Countries | United States Italy |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,000,000 (US/ Canada)[1] |
Five Branded Women is a 1960 Italian-American film directed by Martin Ritt (his only war film) and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It features an international cast including Silvana Mangano, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau and Vera Miles. The film is set during the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia and was shot in Italy and Klagenfurt, Austria.`
Plot
Five Yugoslavian women are accused of consorting with the Nazis who have taken over their town. The women are banished from the town and meet up with guerillas in the mountains.
Cast
- Silvana Mangano: Jovanka
- Jeanne Moreau: Ljuba
- Vera Miles: Daniza
- Barbara Bel Geddes: Marja
- Carla Gravina: Mira
- Van Heflin: Velko
- Richard Basehart: Cap. Reinhardt
- Harry Guardino: Branco
- Alex Nicol: Svenko
- Steve Forrest: Sgt. Keller
- Gérard Herter: Colonel von Elm
- Romolo Valli: Mirko
- Sidney Clute: Milan
- Pietro Germi: partisan commander
- Guido Celano: Drago
- Giacomo Rossi Stuart
See also
References
- ^ "Rental Potentials of 1960", Variety, 4 January 1961 p 47. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
External links
Categories:
- 1960 films
- Italian war drama films
- Films about capital punishment
- Films directed by Martin Ritt
- Paramount Pictures films
- Films with screenplays by Ugo Pirro
- 1960s war drama films
- Films with screenplays by Michael Wilson (writer)
- War films set in Partisan Yugoslavia
- Films produced by Dino De Laurentiis
- American war drama films
- Films scored by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
- 1960 drama films
- Fictional Yugoslav Partisans
- English-language Italian films
- 1960s English-language films
- 1960s American films
- 1960s Italian films
- War drama film stubs