PLOT Anna, directed by Monica Guerritore, is a biopic focused on Anna Magnani. We are in Rome on March 21, 1956, and Anna Magnani (Monica Guerritore) wanders through the streets of the Eternal City, waiting for a phone call that could change her life: the Oscar for The Rose Tattoo. It is a night suspended between hope and melancholy, a crossroads of lights and shadows. While the world celebrates her as the greatest Italian actress, Anna faces an intimate pain: the definitive separation from Roberto Rossellini, the love that marked her forever. Rossellini has left her for another woman, another actress, another cinema diva: Ingrid Bergman. Through her eyes and those of the young Carol Levi — who will become her agent and confidante — the film retraces the crucial moments of Magnani’s life and career: clashes with Cinecittà, burning passions, her return to the theater when cinema begins to exclude her, and a love that, despite everything, has never truly abandoned her.
