

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
1940-12-18 · 79 min · ★ 6.2
A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day, the love letter the woman writes to this non-existent man is accidentally sent by one of her students –and falls into the hands of a real person.
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- Vittorio De Sica
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- Italy
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Vittorio De SicaAlfredo Hartman
Vera BergmanElisa Malgari
Carla Del PoggioMaddalena
Irasema DiliánEva
Pina RenziProf.ssa Varzi
Arturo BragagliaProf. Sila
Guglielmo BarnabòPadre di Maddalena
Amelia ChelliniLa direttrice
Paola VeneroniL'allieva Varghetti, la spiona
Roberto VillaStefano Armani
Armando MigliariMalesci, il professore di chimica
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