Directed by:
Ettore ScolaCinematography:
Pasqualino De SantisComposer:
Armando TrovajoliCast:
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Alessandra Mussolini, Adolf Hitler (a.f.), King Victor Emmanuel III (a.f.) (more)VOD (2)
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Italian cinema dream team Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni are cast against glamorous type and deliver two of the finest performances of their careers in this moving, quietly subversive drama from Ettore Scola. Though it’s set in Rome on the historic day in 1938 when Benito Mussolini and the city first rolled out the red carpet for Adolf Hitler, the film takes place entirely in a working-class apartment building, where an unexpected friendship blossoms between a pair of people who haven’t joined the festivities: a conservative housewife and mother tending to her domestic duties and a liberal radio broadcaster awaiting deportation. Scola paints an exquisite portrait in muted tones, a story of two individuals helpless in the face of Fascism’s rise. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Sophia Loren
Italy
Best movies:
A Special Day (1977)
Two Women (1960)
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980) (TV movie)
Marcello Mastroianni
Italy
Best movies:
A Special Day (1977)
A Tailor's Maid (1957)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
John Vernon
Canada
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Sacketts (1979) (TV movie)
A Special Day (1977)
Françoise Berd
Canada
Best movies:
A Special Day (1977)
Agnes of God (1985)
Kamouraska (1973)
Alessandra Mussolini
Italy
Best movies:
A Special Day (1977)
Aurora (1984) (TV movie)
The Taxi Driver (1983)
Adolf Hitler (a.f.)
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Dangerous: The Short Films (1993) (video compilation) - a.f.
The King's Speech (2010) - a.f.
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV movie) - a.f.
King Victor Emmanuel III (a.f.)
Italy
Best movies:
A Special Day (1977) - a.f.
Benito Mussolini (a.f.)
Italy
Best movies:
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - a.f.
A Special Day (1977) - a.f.
Lune froide (1991) - a.f.