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A Special Day (Italian: Una giornata particolare) is a 1977 period drama film directed and co-written by Ettore Scola, produced by Carlo Ponti, and starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Set in Rome in 1938, its narrative follows a housewife (Loren) and her neighbor (Mastroianni) who stay home the day Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini .
Nov 29, 2021 · The director, Ettore Scola, who died in 2016 was a legend of the Italian cinema both as a screenwriter and as a director with many films to his credit over a long career. In one of those strange coincidences Scola was also in fact a 7 year old boy somewhere in the crowd in 1938 in a child's black shirt in the opening film footage when Hitler came to town .
A Special Day: Directed by Ettore Scola. With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd. Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
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Mar 8, 2022 · Set in Rome in 1938, its narrative follows an ordinary woman (Loren) and her homosexual neighbor (Mastroianni), who stay home the day Hitler visits Benito Mussolini. Ettore Scola directed A Special Day (Italian: Una giornata particolare), a sensitive emotional drama about the emerging bond between two outsiders during the fascist regime ...
A Special Day. 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 ...
Oct 14, 2015 Full Review Vincent Canby New York Times In Ettore Scola's funny, humane A Special Day, Antonietta and Gabriele are never really a couple, but their brief encounter lights up the ...
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Jan 23, 2017 · It is a timely reminder that all fascism must be resisted with vigilance, sacrifice, and bravery. Una giornata particolare (A Special Day 1977 Italy / Canada 106 min) Prod Co: Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, Canafox Films Prod: Carlo Ponti Dir: Ettore Scola Scr: Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola, Maurizio Costanzo Phot: Pasqualino De Santis Ed ...
