Gefährliche Schönheit (1953) De aka La provinciale

Director: Mario Soldati Writers: Alberto Moravia (novel), Giorgio Bassani (screenplay) Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Interlenghi Gemma, daughter of a lodger, is in love with her halfbrother, but since she cannot marry him she ends up marrying a teacher. She doesn t love him and betrays him but is blackmailed by a Romanian countess who forces her to become a prostitute. She s desperate but in the end she asks her husband for help. She has learned to love him in the meantime.