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In person: Sophia Loren and Edoardo Ponti.

This harrowing tale finds Cesira (Sophia Loren), a grocer in Rome and mother of 13-year-old Rosetta (Eleonora Brown), fleeing the 1943 German invasion of the Italian capital city for her childhood village of Ciociaria, facing danger unflinchingly as her will to survive is challenged amidst the devastation of World War II. Marking her homecoming after a four-year contract with Paramount, Loren reteams with director Vittorio De Sica and producer Carlo Ponti to deliver a tour-de-force performance that garnered the Best Actress prize at the 14th Cannes Film Festival and made her the first non-English-language performer to win an Oscar.