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Adua and Her Friends (Italian: Adua e le compagne), also known as Hungry For Love, is a 1960 Italian film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli with a collaborative screenplay by the film's director together with Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola and Tullio Pinelli.
Adua e le compagne: Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli. With Simone Signoret, Sandra Milo, Emmanuelle Riva, Gina Rovere. When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant.
- (1.4K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Antonio Pietrangeli
- 1960-09-16
Adua and Her Friends. The closure of brothels leaves Adua, Milly, Lolita and Marilina without their usual source of subsistence. The four young women decide to open a restaurant in the outskirts of Rome, in order to create a façade activity that allows them to continue the exercise of the "profession" to which they are accustomed.
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- Antonio Pietrangeli
- 5
- Domenico Modugno, Nando Angelini
From left to right: Emmanuelle Riva, Gina Rovere, Simone Signoret, and Sandra Milo as the four central women in Adua and Her Friends. The solidarity forged by Adua’s four women—both emotional and economic, with 500,000 lire invested in the trattoria by each of them—represents a blow against such disempowerment.
Critics reviews. When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
Comedy. When new laws force their brothel to close, four former prostitutes open a restaurant.
