Release Date

21 May, 1999

Runtime

01:46: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to leave her own baby behind. To the consternation and increasing anger of the wife, the nanny immediately bonds with the couple's infant son - Annette's a natural. Against a backdrop of leftist demonstrations, Annette, who's lover is a teacher jailed for subversion, asks the doctor to teach her to read and write. Her nature and curiosity, the doctor's bland ideas, he and his wife's problems, and the two infants bring the story to a head.

Original Title

La balia

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Actors

Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Maya Sansa

Jacqueline Lustig

Pier Giorgio Bellocchio

Elda Alvigini

Elda Alvigini

Fabio Camilli

Michele Placido

Crew

Marco Bellocchio

Luigi Pirandello

Marco Bellocchio

Marco Bellocchio

Marco Bellocchio