History Film / FiveBrandedWomen

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Daniza and one of the partisans are killed as punishment for sleeping together while they were supposed to be on watch]].

* LaResistance: The partisans, natch.

* TookALevelInBadass: All five of the women, who join the partisans.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* BaldWoman: Not fully bald, just close cropped.

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''Five Branded Women'' is a 1960 American/Italian war film directed by Martin Ritt and staring Silviana Mangano, Creator/VeraMiles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Creator/JeanneMoreau, and Carla Gravina as the titular quintet. It's mostly remembered for being the reason why Vera Miles had to wear a wig while she was filming ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.

The film follows five women from a Yugoslavian village during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Jovanka (Mangano), Ljuba (Moreau), Daniza (Miles), Marja (Bel Geddes), and Mira (Gravina), all of whom slept with the same German soldier. As punishment, the villagers shave the women's heads and exile them from the village. The five band together and eventually join the partisans.

!This film provides examples of:

* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Daughter/Sister]]: Ljuba's brother says he didn't stop them from cutting her hair because he agreed with them and Jovanka's mother only gives her a scarf for her head before sending her away from the village.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The film implies as heavily as was possible in the 1960s that the German soldier gets castrated for sleeping with the town's women.
--> "I'm no longer a man!"

The film follows five women from a Yugoslavian village during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, all of whom slept with the same German soldier. As punishment, the villagers shave the women's heads and exile them from the village. The five band together and eventually join the partisans.

The film has recently come back to mainstream attention, being featured regularly on TV and has been praised as one of Ritt's better films. It puts a unique spin on the war drama by having the women involved in the actual combat as opposed to sitting on the sidelines.

''Five Branded Women'' is a 1960 American/Italian war film directed by Martin Ritt and staring Silviana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Creator/JeanneMoreau, and Carla Gravina as the titular quintet. It's mostly remembered for being the reason why Vera Miles had to wear a wig while she was filming ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.

''Five Branded Women'' is a 1960 American/Italian war film directed by Martin Ritt and staring Silviana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau, and Carla Gravina as the titular quintet. It's mostly remembered for being the reason why Vera Miles had to wear a wig while she was filming ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign

* DrivenToSuicide: One of the women at the start, though they convince her not to.
* DyeingForYourArt: Four of the five leads shaved their heads for the film, except Barbara Bel Geddes who wore a wig.

* KarmaHoudini: Subverted initially as a man who tries to rape Jovanka turns out to be one of the partisans and they end up working together. [[spoiler: Double subverted when he's killed off later]].
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Though it's a little justified with many international actors in the film.

* TeamMom: Marja.

The film follows five women from a Yugoslavian village during WorldWarII, all of whom slept with the same German soldier. As punishment, the villagers shave the women's heads and exile them from the village. The five band together and eventually join the partisans.

''Five Branded Women'' is a 1960 American/Italian war film directed by Martin Ritt and staring Silviana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreu and Carla Gravina as the titular quintet. It's mostly remembered for being the reason why Vera Miles had to wear a wig while she was filming ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.

''Five Branded Women'' is a 1960 American/Italian war film directed by Martin Ritt and staring Silviana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreu and Carla Gravina. It's mostly remembered for being the reason why Vera Miles had to wear a wig while she was filming ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.

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The film follows five women from a Yugoslavian village during the second World War who all slept with the same German soldier. As punishment, the villagers shave the women's heads and exile them from the village. The five band together and eventually join the partisans.

''Five Branded Women'' is a 1960 war film directed by Martin Ritt and staring Silviana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreu and Carla Gravina. It's mostly remembered for being the reason why Vera Miles had to wear a wig while she was filming ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.

''Five Branded Women'' is a 1960 war film directed by Martin Ritt and staring Silviana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreu and Carla Gravina. It's mostly remembered for being the reason why Vera Miles had to wear a wig while she was filming ''Psycho''. The film follows five women from a Yugoslavian village during the second World War who all slept with the same German soldier. As punishment, the villagers shave the women's heads and exile them from the village. The five band together and eventually join the partisans.

* TraumaticHaircut: TruthInTelevision, all five women get their hair cut off for sleeping with the German soldier. Only Jovanka's is actually shown on screen.

* {{Casanova}}: The German soldier. Also one of the partisans.

* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Daughter/Sister]]: Jovanka's brother says he didn't stop them from cutting her hair because he believed them and her mother only gives her a scarf for her head before sending her away from the village.