Una vita difficile
Dino Risi
Roman partisan fighter Silvio falls in love with Elena, although she helps to hide Germans. They decide to leave for Rome and get married. But Silvio is idealistic and upright and is not ready to fall in line. Following his spell in prison for attempted insurrection, Elena decides to leave him, tired of his radical positions and in search of an easier life.
With : Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi, Lina Volonghi, Claudio Gora, Loredana Nusciak
Screenplay : Rodolfo Sonego
Image : Leonida Barboni
Editing : Tatiana Casini
Music : Carlo Savina
Screenplay : Rodolfo Sonego
Image : Leonida Barboni
Editing : Tatiana Casini
Music : Carlo Savina
Production : Dino De Laurentiis
Distribution: Tamasa
Distribution: Tamasa
"Una vita difficile (A Difficult Life)is a sort of assessment, a judgementagainst a sick society where Risi is the disillusioned critic using all the resources of satire. The Italy of the early 1960s the film describes holds within it the seeds of the errors of the future, generalised corruption, terrorism as the wrong response to an unjust society, the mafia at the heart of the State. With retrospect and the understanding of the current situation in Italy, the character ofCommendatoreBracci, a wheeler and dealer whose long arm stretches into all sorts of areas, takes on a particular air, a worrying anticipation of what was yet to come" (Jean A. Gili).