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Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.Read moreLess
Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.
The story
Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.
Cast & crew
Gina LollobrigidaAgostina
Yvonne SansonAustralia
Carlo RomanoIl maresciallo
Carlo GiustiniMarco
Clelia MataniaBianca
Ernesto AlmiranteIl Possidente
Agostino SalviettiIl Sindaco
Gino SaltamerendaFernando
Ada ColangeliFrancesca
Eduardo De FilippoDon AndreaExplore the crew
- Director
- Luigi Zampa
- Screenplay
- Piero Tellini
- Director of Photography
- Carlo Montuori
- Original Music Composer
- Nino Rota
- Producer
- Carlo Ponti
- Editor
- Eraldo Da Roma