The Lovemakers (La viaccia)

The Lovemakers (Italian: La viaccia) is a 1961 drama, an Italian-French co-production directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on Mario Pratesi's novel L'eredità, adapted for the screen by Vasco Pratolini, Pasquale Festa Campanile and Massimo Franciosa. Shot in Italian and running about 100 minutes, it was admitted to the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.

The story is set in Florence at the end of the previous century. A young farmer (Jean-Paul Belmondo) arrives in the city to work for his wealthy uncle and falls in love with a prostitute (Claudia Cardinale). Alongside Belmondo and Cardinale, the cast includes Pietro Germi, Romolo Valli, Paola Pitagora, Gabriella Pallotta, Gina Sammarco, Emma Baron, Marcella Rovena, Olimpia Cavalli, Paul Frankeur, Maurice Poli and Renzo Palmer.

The film travelled under different titles: Le Mauvais Chemin in France, Das Haus in der Via Roma in Germany and Бездорожье in Russian.