Guai ai vinti

{{short description|1954 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Guai ai vinti

| image = Guai ai vinti.jpg

| caption =

| director = Raffaello Matarazzo

| writer = {{ubl|Achille Campanile|Raffaello Matarazzo|Mario Monicelli|Piero Pierotti|Giovanna Soria}}

| starring =

| music ={{ubl|Carlo Franci|Renzo Rossellini}}

| cinematography = Tino Santoni

| editing = Mario Serandrei

| producer =

| released = {{Film date|1954|11|03|df=y}}

| country = Italy

| language = Italian

}}

Guai ai vinti (Woe to the Vanquished Ones) is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It is based on the novel Vae Victis by Annie Vivanti.{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|date=1991 |publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=978-88-7605-548-5}}{{cite book|last=Emiliano Morreale |title=Così piangevano: il cinema melò nell'Italia degli anni Cinquanta |year=2011 |publisher=Donzelli Editore, 2011 |isbn=978-88-6036-582-8}}

Plot

During the First World War the Italian front at Caporetto is overwhelmed by an attack of adverse troops. Luisa and her sister Clara remain in their villa, prisoners of the Austrians. They are forced to undergo all sorts of violence, so that Mirella, the little daughter of Luisa, lost the use of the word following the trauma.

Cast

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