On the occasion of the World Premiere of Marco Tutino and Fabio Ceresa’s opera La Ciociara at SF Opera, the Italian Cultural Institute of SF will present a special screening of the 1960 film of the same title by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sofia Loren.
Sunday, May 31 – 6:30pm
New People Cinema
1746 Post St, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 ($18 for IIC members). For regular tickets, please click here.
For member discount, please contact the IIC at 415.788.7142 so we can confirm your membership.
SF Opera is offering a 30% discount on the opera of the same name to IIC members; call the IIC for details.The film is also presented as part of the “Cinema Italia SF” project, a collaboration between Luce Cinecittà and the Italian Cultural Institute which, after the successful Pasolini and Bertolucci series in 2013 and 2014 respectively, will bring this coming September “De Sica Forever”, a tribute to the great Italian director with four of his most beloved works: Bicycle Thieves, The Gold of Naples, Marriage Italian Style, and The Garden of the Finzi-Contini.
As well as Sophia Loren’s memorable role as the protagonist, La Ciociara also features performances by Jean Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Cecchi. The plot was adapted from a novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia, one of the most highly respected 20th-century Italian authors, and is a fictionalised account of the mass rapes committed by Moroccan troops in the French army after the battle of Monte Cassino in 1944.