A Special Day

(Una giornata particolare)

Ettore Scola
Italy, 1977
featuring

Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd,

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.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Ettore Scola
  • Ruggero Maccari
Cinematographer
  • Pasqualino De Santis
Language
  • Italian
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 106 mins
Source
  • Cinecittà
Permission
  • Janus Films
Additional Info
  • written with the collaboration of Maurizio Costanzo; 4K Restoration by CSC - Cineteca Nazionale

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