Overview

Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.

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Cast

Silvana Mangano

Suzanne Dufresne

Anthony Perkins

Joseph Dufresne

Richard Conte

Michael

Jo Van Fleet

Mme. Dufresne

Alida Valli

Claude

Nehemiah Persoff

Albert Legros

Guido Celano

Bart

Yvonne Sanson

Carmen

Larry Williams

Roland