La lupa (also known as She-Wolf, The Vixen and The Devil Is a Woman) is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada.

[2][3] In a remote village in southern Italy, La Lupa ("The Wolf"), a woman with a free attitude and manners, fascinates and attracts husbands and sons who can't resist her.

However, she falls in love with Nanni, who grows olive trees and wants to marry her daughter, Maricchia.

It should also be noted that Giovanni Verga later made a theatrical adaptation (1896) - one of the plays was directed by Franco Zeffirelli with Anna Magnani and Lucia Bosé in 1965 - and then a libretto.

For a musical melodrama, in collaboration with De Robertis, composed by Giacomo Puccini and then G.-A.