Cinema at the Institute: Contemporary Italian
THE UNKNOWN WOMAN
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Year: 2006 | Duration: 118 min
Cast: Ksenia Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini
In Italian with subtitles in English
Irena, a Ukrainian woman who has just arrived in a city in Italy does the cleaning in a building and glazing of the stairs, but her target is a family of goldsmiths who live there, the Adacher. In order to get inside the house Irena becomes friend with the housemaid, Gina, until she replaces her. From here the “Unknown” takes the form of an inexorable, progressive insertion in the family.
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