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The Doll That Took the Town

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The Doll That Took the Town
Directed byFrancesco Maselli
Written byFranco Bemporad
Cesare Zavattini
Francesco Maselli
Luigi Squarzina
Aggeo Savioli
Produced byLorenzo Pegoraro
StarringVirna Lisi
Antonio Cifariello
Haya Harareet
Elisa Cegani
Vittorio Sanipoli
Serge Reggiani
Franco Fabrizi
CinematographyArmando Nannuzzi
Edited byMario Serandrei
Music byMario Zafred
Distributed byMedallion Pictures
Release date
  • 1956 (1956)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

The Doll That Took the Town (Italian: La donna del giorno, lit.'The Woman of the Day') is a 1956 Italian drama film directed by Francesco Maselli and starring Virna Lisi, Haya Harareet and Franco Fabrizi.[1][2] For this film Maselli won the award for best young director at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.[3]

Plot

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A struggling model who concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Rassegna cinematografica [review]". Corriere della Sera. 26 January 1957. p. 6 – via The Wikipedia Library.
  2. ^ m. g. (7 February 1957). "Sullo schermo". La Stampa. No. 33. p. 4. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  3. ^ Chiti, Roberto; Poppi, Roberto; Lancia, Enrico (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959 (in Italian). Gremese Editore. p. 124. ISBN 978-88-7605-548-5.
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