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Five Branded Women

Five Branded Women
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Directed by Martin Ritt
Produced by Dino De Laurentiis
Written by Ivo Perilli
Michael Wilson
Paul Jarrico
Ugo Pirro (novel)
Starring Silvana Mangano
Barbara Bel Geddes
Jeanne Moreau
Vera Miles
Van Heflin
Richard Basehart
Music by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Cinematography Giuseppe Rotunno
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • March 15, 1960 (1960-03-15)
Running time
115 minutes
Country United States
Italy
Language English
Box office $1,000,000 (US/ Canada)

Five Branded Women is a 1960 Italian-American international co-production film directed by Martin Ritt and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It featured an international cast including Silvana Mangano, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau and Vera Miles and was Ritt's only war movie, set during the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia where the film was shot.

Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet of women believed to have consorted with the occupational Nazis. Four, for various reasons, have indeed - and their seducer is a lone, swaggering sergeant whom the partisans briskly emasculate. Escorted out of town by the sheepish Nazis, the forlorn ladies link up, patriotically and romantically, with a band of tough mountain guerrillas.



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