Red Desert(1964)
This is the story of a woman… Her hidden thirsts and hungers…
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
Movie: Red Desert
Top 10 Billed Cast
Giuliana
Corrado Zeller
Linda
Emilia
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