''Il sole negli occhi'' (internationally released as ''Empty Eyes'') is a

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yug ...

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drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by Antonio Pietrangeli. It stars

Gabriele Ferzetti Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. Ferzetti's first leading role ...

Plot

Celestina, a young country girl from Castelluccio di Norcia, naive, inexperienced, ignorant, after having lost both parents goes to Rome to work as a maid at the house of a middle-class couple who are moving to a newly built neighborhood. Here she makes the acquaintance of Fernando, a plumber who courts her insistently. Sometime after her, her brothers visit her to tell her that they have sold her house and that they are emigrating to Australia in search of work. Celestina finds herself completely alone in a world unknown to her. She fired, she is hired by a retired couple where Fernando tracks her down, but she rejects him. Here she meets a police officer with whom she becomes engaged. The two elders treat her as her daughter and plan to appoint her as their heir, but this decision triggers grievances from her relatives concerned. Celestina then asks her boyfriend for help, but he pulls back from her and offers her a cohabitation, which the young woman refuses, abandoning both him and her work. The young maid then finds a third job in a stately home, but after a promising start it causes a scandal when she is caught kissing in the bathroom with the plumber (Fernando), whom she had been looking for this time. She was fired on the spot and, thanks to a ruse, she finds a fourth job with a family of wealthy merchants. Meanwhile, Fernando has gone to work with Marcucci, who offers him to become his partner, but on condition that he marries his sister. Meanwhile, he continues to hang out with Celestina, but hiding the truth from her. The family where the young woman works moves for the summer to Ladispoli, where she waits in vain for Fernando, as she had promised, to join her. Here she realizes she is expecting a child. She then returns to Rome to look for him, but she discovers that he has married in the meantime. She meets him again, but, faced with her usual irresponsible behavior, desperate, she throws herself under a tram. Doctors save both her and her baby; Fernando visits her at the hospital and promises that he will stay with her. This time it seems sincere, but Celestina has decided: she refuses to see the man again and will face life alone for the love of the child who is about to be born.

Cast

: l'idraulico Fernando *

Irène Galter Irène Galter (16 September 1931 – 7 June 2018) was an Italian actress. Life and career Born in Merano as Irene Patuzzi, during the first half of the 1950s Galter was called the "ideal girlfriend" of Italians. She was casually discovered in ...

: la domestica Celestina * Aristide Baghetti: prof Nicotera *

Francesco Mulè Francesco Mulè (3 December 1926 – 4 November 1984), was an Italian actor, voice actor and television and radio personality. He appeared in 74 films between 1953 and 1979. Born in Rome, the son of composer Giuseppe Mulè, he studied at t ...

: Marcucci *

Anna Maria Dossena Anna Maria Dossena (1912–1990) was an Italian stage and film actress.Walman p.162 Selected filmography * ''Television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The ...

: Elvira *

Paolo Stoppa Paolo Stoppa Knight Grand Cross (6 June 1906 – 1 May 1988) was an Italian actor. Biography Born in Rome, he began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932. As a stage actor, his most celebrated ...

: Egisto Marcucci *

Lia Di Leo Lia Anna Di Leo (22 July 1923 – 15 December 2006) was an Italian actress and model. She entered the 1951 Miss Italy contest and then began acting in films, generally playing glamorous supporting roles. Di Leo's parents died while she was very ...

: Gina *

Mimmo Palmara Domenico "Mimmo" Palmara (25 July 1928 – 10 June 2016) was an Italian actor. Biography Born in Cagliari, Palmara made his film debut in 1952 as a character actor in drama films by eminent directors such as Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli and ...

: soldato

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* 1953 films 1950s Italian-language films Films set in Rome Films with screenplays by Ugo Pirro Films with screenplays by Suso Cecchi d'Amico 1953 directorial debut films Italian drama films 1953 drama films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub