Tre donne La sciantosa

La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writerdirector Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies all of them with Anna Magnani The other two are 1943 un incontro and Lautmobile In this first movie La Magnani is Flora Torres a sciantosa kind of a small stage diva who is forgotten during the WWI living only to remember her past glory One day she receives a letter to present herself to the high command There Flora is called to go to the front and entertain the troops Along with her maid Cristina Flora goes to the front There they are welcomed by the young private Tonino Massimo Ranieri Flora starts to act like a prima donna making absurd demands to everyone But when she is about to present herself the vision of the wounded soldiers makes her change her way