Here the still very young Vera Bergman played the understanding and loving teacher Elisa Malgari, who teaches in a girls' school where she comes into conflict with her colleagues.

[4] Bergman's roles were characterized by great professionalism and helped her to a respectable career during the years of World War II.

She increasingly appeared in more mediocre films, with the exception of Luigi Capuano's Legge di sangue,[5] in which she played the role of a contemptible and obscure noblewoman very successfully.

[6] In her time, she represented an important part of Italian neorealism, which had a lasting influence on the international film world between 1945 and 1955.

On February 7, 1951, she married journalist Peter Anthony Vasquez Russo in Melbourne at the age of 30.