Un giorno nella vita
1946 film
- 5 April 1946 (1946-04-05)
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Un giorno nella vita ("A Day in Life") is a 1946 Italian war film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[1] American title: "A Day In the Life". This film was screened in 2009 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's retrospective "Life Lessons" Italian Neorealism and the birth of modern cinema.
Plot
A group of partisans seek refuge in a cloistered convent. The sisters reluctantly aid the ailing men, but not without terrible consequences. A day in the life offers an image of a big tent Italy, in which the differences that had earlier cleaved society, especially between the church and the political Left, are temporarily tabled for the higher cause of national unity.
Cast
- Enzo Biliotti - Don Eusebio
- Elisa Cegani - Suor Maria
- Ada Colangeli - Suor Gaetana
- Ada Dondini - Madre Superiora
- Arnoldo Foà - Brusan
- Massimo Girotti - Luigi Monotti
- Flavia Grande - Suor Luisa
- Mariella Lotti - Suor Bianca
- Dante Maggio - Carlo
- Secondo Maronetto - Macchi
- Marcella Melnati - Suor Pace
- Luciano Mondolfo - Damiano Santoni
- Gino Mori - Rino
- Amedeo Nazzari - Captain De Palma
- Ave Ninchi - Suor Celeste
- Amalia Pellegrini - Suor Scolastica
- Adam Perkal - German Captain
- Antonio Pierfederici - Giovanni
- Rolando Purgatori - American doctor
- Goliarda Sapienza - Suor Speranza
- Dina Sassoli - Suor Teresa
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Un giorno nella vita". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
External links
- Un giorno nella vita at IMDb
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Films directed by Alessandro Blasetti
- Sun (1929)
- Nerone (1930)
- Resurrection (1931)
- Mother Earth (1931)
- Palio (1932)
- The Table of the Poor (1932)
- The Haller Case (1933)
- 1860 (1934)
- The Old Guard (1934)
- Aldebaran (1935)
- The Countess of Parma (1937)
- Ettore Fieramosca (1938)
- Backstage (1939)
- An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939)
- The Iron Crown (1941)
- The Jester's Supper (1942)
- Four Steps in the Clouds (1942)
- Un giorno nella vita (1946)
- Fabiola (1949)
- Father's Dilemma (1950)
- In Olden Days (1952)
- Too Bad She's Bad (1954)
- A Slice of Life (1954)
- Lucky to Be a Woman (1956)
- Love and Chatter (1957)
- Three Fables of Love (1962)
- Liolà (1963)
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966)
- Simón Bolívar (1969)
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