Difficult Years

Anni difficili

Italy

1948

113 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

Italian

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Domenico Forzari, Folco Laudati

SCR Enrico Fulchignoni, Franco Evangelisti, Vitaliano Brancati, Sergio Amidei

CAST Umberto Spadaro, Ave Ninchi, Delia Scala, Massimo Girotti, Ernesto Almirante, Milly Vitale, Enzo Biliotti, Carlo Sposito, Loris Gizzi, Aldo Silvani, Giovanni Grasso, Olinto Cristina, Raniero De Cenzo, Agostino Salvietti, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Miro Zonda, Natale Cirino

MUSIC Franco Casavola, Nino Rota

Venice: ENIC Cup

Synopsis

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late. —IMDb

Director

Luigi Zampa

Luigi Zampa (Rome, January 2, 1905 – Rome, August 16, 1991) was an Italian film-maker. Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome. He directed several Italian neorealism films in the 1940s. In 1949 he filmed in UK the British film Children of Chance, which he remade in Italian the following year as Campane a martello. During the 1950s and 1960s he became a director of several successful films belonging to the Commedia all’italiana genre, some starring Alberto Sordi. —Wikipedia