Release Date | 1957-10-31 |
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Runtime | 105 minutes |
Genres | Drama |
Stars | Silvana Mangano, Anthony Perkins, Richard Conte, Jo Van Fleet, Alida Valli |
Directors | René Clément, Marguerite Duras, Diego Fabbri, Irwin Shaw, René Clément |
Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.