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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.
Original Release
08/12/1977
US Release
09/25/1977
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Sophia Loren | Antonietta Taberi |
Marcello Mastroianni | Gabriele |
John Vernon | Emanuele Taberi |
Françoise Berd | Concierge |
Patrizia Basso | Romana Taberi |
Tiziano De Persio | Arnaldo Taberi |
Maurizio Di Paolantonio | Fabio Taberi |
Antonio Garibaldi | Littorio Taberi |
Vittorio Guerrieri | Umberto Taberi |
Alessandra Mussolini | Maria Luisa Taberi |
Directors
Writers
Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari, Maurizio Costanzo
Cast
Name | Character |
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Sophia Loren | Antonietta Taberi |
Marcello Mastroianni | Gabriele |
John Vernon | Emanuele Taberi |
Françoise Berd | Concierge |
Patrizia Basso | Romana Taberi |
Tiziano De Persio | Arnaldo Taberi |
Maurizio Di Paolantonio | Fabio Taberi |
Antonio Garibaldi | Littorio Taberi |
Vittorio Guerrieri | Umberto Taberi |
Alessandra Mussolini | Maria Luisa Taberi |
Nicole Magny | Officer's Daughter |
Galeazzo Ciano | Self |
Adolf Hitler | Self |
King Victor Emmanuel III | Self |
Benito Mussolini | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Carlo Ponti | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1978 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |
1978 | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated |
1978 | Golden Globe | Best Foreign Film | Won |
1978 | Golden Globe | Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama | Nominated |