A Special Day
Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Una giornata particolare
Date: January 01, 1977 to December 31, 1977
Dates Note: 1977
Country of Origin:
Italy
Place of Origin: Italy
Languages:
Italian
Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On:
Additional Info:
written with the collaboration of Maurizio Costanzo; 4K Restoration by CSC - Cineteca Nazionale
Curator Notes
Film Series/Exhibition Title:
Marcello Mastroianni at 100Description:
In Italy in 1938, it’s a special day indeed when Adolf Hitler comes to town. All of Rome, it seems, turns out to cheer his celebration of the axis with Il Duce. Antonietta (Sophia Loren), a harried, drawn mother of six, has packed off her uniformed brood and imagines she is alone in the apartment block. But Gabriele (Marcello Mastroianni), a blacklisted radio announcer, is in his flat across the courtyard as he awaits deportation to Sardinia. Ettore Scola paints an exquisite portrait in muted tones, a story of two individuals helpless in the face of fascism’s rise.
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