''A Woman Has Killed'' (Italian: ''Una donna ha ucciso'') is a

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

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melodrama crime film directed by

Vittorio Cottafavi Vittorio Cottafavi (30 January 1914 – 14 December 1998) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1943 and 1985. His film '' Il diavolo sulle colline'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at t ...

. While on a train journey a young woman tells another passenger how she murdered her husband, a British army officer.Bayman p.1 It is a

neorealist film Italian neorealism (art), neorealism ( it, Neorealismo), also known as the Golden Age, is a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class. They are filmed Location shooting, on location, frequently wit ...

, based on the real story of Lidia Cirillo, who appears in the film. The film's sets were designed by the art director

Ottavio Scotti Ottavio Scotti (1904–1975) was an Italian art director. Scotti was born in Umago, which was then part of Italy but is today in Croatia. He worked on more than a hundred films during his career, including Orson Welles's ''Black Magic'' which wa ...

Cast

* Frank Latimore as Capt. Roy Prescott * Lianella Carell as Anna * Alessandro Serbaroli as Larry (as Alex Serbaroli) * Vera Palumbo as Carla *

Umberto Spadaro Umberto Spadaro (8 November 1904 – 12 October 1981) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in around 95 films between 1940 and 1979. His brother Peppino Spadaro was also an actor. Selected filmography * ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1939) – ...

as Padre di Anna * Marika Rowsky * Celeste Aída * Diego Muni * Vincenzo Milazzo * Pia De Doses * Lidia Cirillo

References

Bibliography

* Bayman, Louis. ''The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama''. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

External links

* 1952 films 1952 crime drama films Italian crime drama films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Vittorio Cottafavi Mariticide in fiction Films scored by Renzo Rossellini Melodrama films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub