We, the Women

Siamo donne
Directed by	Gianni Franciolini Alfredo Guarini Roberto Rossellini Luchino Visconti Luigi Zampa
Written by	Cesare Zavattini Luigi Chiarini Giorgio Prosperi Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Produced by	Alfredo Guarini
Starring	Alida Valli Ingrid Bergman Isa Miranda Anna Magnani
Cinematography	Otello Martelli Gábor Pogány Domenico Scala Enzo Serafin
Edited by	Jolanda Benvenuti Eraldo Da Roma Adriana Novelli Mario Serandrei
Music by	Alessandro Cicognini
Distributed by	Titanus Distribuzione
Release dates	October 22 1953 1954 October 6 1958
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Siamo donne (also known as We, the Women and Of Life and Love) is a 1953 Italian film divided into five segments and directed by five different directors. Four of these segments focus upon alleged events in the lives of the film actresses Alida Valli, Ingrid Bergman, Isa Miranda, and Anna Magnani, while the fifth segment, titled Concorso 4 Attrici 1 Speranza, is an entirely fictional story.

Plots

Ingrid Bergman (AKA The Chicken) - The chicken belonging to the proprietress is eating Ingrid Bergman's roses. The proprietress refuses to take any effective measures to restrain the chicken. In order to resolve the dilemma, Ingrid Bergman comes up with a plan of her own. She kidnaps the chicken and tries to have her dog scare it. When guests arrive, she hides the chicken in a pantry closet. The story ends when the proprietress comes and takes the chicken back after hearing its clucking.

Anna Magnani - On the way to a singing engagement, Anna Magnani and a taxi driver have an argument over whether her dog is a lap dog, since it costs one lira more to carry a non-lap dog in a taxi. In order to dispute this charge, she first presents the case to a policeman on the street, who charges her 14.50 lira because her dog is not licensed. She then takes it to police headquarters, where the captain decides that it is a lap dog. Upon hearing this, the taxi driver states that he was ignorant and was acting in good faith The taxi driver then takes her to her singing engagement, where he charges her 14.50 lira for cab fare. In addition, he charges her one lira for the dog, even though he was just informed that it was a lap dog. The story ends with Magnani singing a song.

External link

• Siamo donne at IMDb