Anna

Anna works as a nun in a hospital. One night a man brought into the emergency room turns out to be someone she knew in her past. From that moment we go back: Anna used to sing in a nightclub, she was caught between two men, and instead of choosing she took another road entirely. Alberto Lattuada's Italian film puts Silvana Mangano at its centre, with Raf Vallone and Vittorio Gassman in the cast. It became the biggest earner of its season in Italy and is counted as the first Italian film to take a billion lire. The number Mangano sings, El negro zumbón, became known quite apart from the film.