Adua and her friends

Streaming video - 2014

A rare masterpiece and a wonderful example of Italian cinema starring two European film icons, Simone Signoret and Marcello Mastroianni, Adua and her friends tells the story of four prostitutes forced to fend for themselves when a new law closes the bordellos of Rome. They pool their savings to open a trattoria, but find they cannot get a license. A prominent fixer with connections obtains the license for them, on the condition that they conduct their old business upstairs and pay him an exorbitant monthly fee. The works of Pietrangeli, one of the most talented members of the Italian neo-realism movement and capable of delivering gems such as Adua and her friends and The visitor deserves to be revisited and to be exposed to a larger interna...tional audience.

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Genres
Feature Films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming 2014.
Language
Italian
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm)
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm) (-)
Other Authors
Simone Signoret, 1921-1985 (actor), Marcello Mastroianni, 1924-1996 (producer), Antonio Pietrangeli, 1919-1968
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image
Item Description
Title from title frames.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 129 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).