Sofía Loren’s anguish: operated on for a hip fracture four days after turning 89

Italian actress Sofia Loren89, underwent surgery this Sunday in Geneva for a hip fracture after falling at her home in the Swiss city and will have to spend several days hospitalized and undergo rehabilitation.

The great diva of Italian cinema and international star turned 89 on September 20 and had planned to move to Bari, in the south of Italy, this week to inaugurate the new branch of the “Restaurante Sofía Loren” chain, the fourth location in Italy after Milan, Florence and Fiumicino, in Rome.

On this occasion he was also going to receive honorary citizenship of the capital of the Apulia region and it was precisely the restaurant chain that confirmed that Loren would not be able to travel to Bari for his operation, while reassuring everyone by assuring that “fortunately everything “It went well and Mrs. Loren will be back with us very soon.” With the actress “are her two sons, Edoardo and Carlo,” the restaurant chain added in a note.

In 2020, Loren filmed her latest film in Bari, Life ahead of you (The life ahead), directed by his son Edoardo Pontian adaptation of the novel of the same name by Romain Gary.

In September, the star of Italian cinema, winner of the Oscar for best actress in 1962 for The ciociara (Two women), participated as godmother in the parade-event One night onlyorganized by Armani at the Venice Arsenale, and in June she was also the star of the evening to celebrate the hundred years of the Verona Arena Opera Festival.