Top Cast
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Lucia Cara
Miluzza
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Stefania Sandrelli
Nunziata
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Raoul Bova
Pietro
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Lorenzo Crespi
Dino
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Luisa Amatucci
Nannina
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Giuditta Del Vecchio
Annuzza
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Pepe Da Rosa
Don Peppe
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Rino Marcelli
Nonno Rafele
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Massimo Bellinzoni
Tunin
Overview
Set during the second world war, the sentimental education of a sensual adolescent girl, growing out of her childhood in a small, impoverished village in Southern Italy.
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