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Empty Eyes

Empty Eyes

1953 · 98 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama

A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.

Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli · Written by Antonio Pietrangeli

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