Women Without Names (1950)

7.0/10 129 min Drama War

Overview

This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for displaced women after the end of World War II. Among them, Anna, a Yugoslav, who has seen her husband killed in Trieste by political enemies. She is pregnant and her one and only aim right now is her baby to be born. Janka, a beautiful Polish girl who has lost her mind, is reunited with the physician who sent her to a brothel for Nazi officers. As for Yvonne, a light-hearted French woman, she is prepared to do anything to leave the place, including to marry out with an Albanese ice cream man, despite his unappetizing looks. At least,she will stop being a woman without a name.

Cast

Simone Simon

Yvonne Dubois

Vivi Gioi

Hilda von Schwartzendorf

Françoise Rosay

The Countess

Irasema Dilián

Janka Novotska

Gino Cervi

Pietro Zanini

Mario Ferrari

The Captain

Gina Falckenberg

Hilda from Bavaria

Fausto Tozzi

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