Red Desert
"This is the story of a woman… Her hidden thirsts and hungers…"
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
"This is the story of a woman… Her hidden thirsts and hungers…"
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
Monica Vitti
Giuliana
Richard Harris
Corrado Zeller
Carlo Chionetti
Ugo
Xenia Valderi
Linda
Rita Renoir
Emilia
Lili Rheims
Telescope Operator's Wife
Aldo Grotti
Max
Valerio Bartoleschi
Valerio
Emanuela Pala Carboni
Girl in Fable
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