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Un giorno nella vita
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Wikipedia article
'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. 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 Fo - 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
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