Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Loren fights to ban party's posters

The actor Sophia Loren has begun legal action to stop a poster campaign launched by Italy's former neo-fascists that implicitly links foreigners and rapists. A lawyer for Loren said she was ready to take "any necessary action" to prevent the National Alliance, the second biggest party in Silvio Berlusconi's government, from using a still from one of her films on posters that have begun to appear in Rome. The party's campaign follows outrage over a string of recent sex attacks. (...) The posters show Loren in her Oscar-winning role in the wartime drama Two Women, Vittorio De Sica's 1961 film in which the actor and her screen daughter are raped by Moroccan soldiers after taking refuge in a church. The film, and the Alberto Moravia novel La Ciociara on which it was based, reflected events still seared into Italy's folk consciousness. siehe auch: Loren fights to outlaw `rape' posters, Sophia Loren Fights Neo-Fascist Party's Poster