Aurora (1984 film)
1984 Italian drama film directed by Maurizio Ponzi
Aurora (Italian: Qualcosa di biondo) is a 1984 Italian made-for-television drama film directed by Maurizio Ponzi and starring Sophia Loren, Edoardo Ponti and Daniel J. Travanti. In order to raise money for an operation for her son, a woman tells various former wealthy lovers that they are his father. The film originally premiered in the United States on NBC on October 21, 1984 and released theatrically in Italy on January 17, 1985.
Plot
A desperate woman (Loren), in crisis and poverty, is in search of the cruel husband (Noiret) who abandoned after giving her a son. The boy has now become almost an adult has a serious eye problem and is likely to become completely blind. The mother then choose to leave to go in search of his father, who in the meantime is starting a new life. When the mother finds out where he is, also learns that the cruel man has remade a family by marrying a young girl, who became the mother of a twenty-year-old son who has had the cruel man from another relationship. [This plot can be incomplete, or maybe wrong. Please check it.]
Cast
Sophia Loren as Aurora
Edoardo Ponti as Aurora's Son
Daniel J. Travanti as David Ackermann
Angela Goodwin as Nurse
Ricky Tognazzi as Michele Orcini
Marisa Merlini as Teresa
Anna Strasberg as Angela Feretti
Franco Fabrizi as Guelfo
Philippe Noiret as Dr.
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