Un giorno nella vita

Un giorno nella vita
Directed by	Alessandro Blasetti
Produced by	Salvo D'Angelo
Written by	Alessandro Blasetti Mario Chiari Diego Fabbri Anton Giulio Majano Cesare Zavattini
Starring	Mariella Lotti
Music by	Enzo Masetti
Cinematography	Mario Craveri
Edited by	Gisa Radicchi Levi
Release dates	September 1946
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

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

1. "Festival de Cannes: Un giorno nella vita". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2009.

External links

• Un giorno nella vita at the Internet Movie Database