There is only unremitting horror and soul-trying for the two women - the mother (Sophia Loren) and her 13-year-old daughter (newcomer Eleanora Brown) - as they reel from one wartime adversity to ...

Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren has undergone emergency surgery ... winning an Oscar in 1962 for Vittorio de Sica's film La Ciociara (Two Women) about a wartime mother's rape.

Sophia Loren pictured at an awards ceremony ... ceremony Sophia was nominated for her performance in Two Women (or La Ciociara, the original Italian title) directed again by Vittorio De Sica.