We the Living

Noi vivi

Italy

1942

94 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

Italian

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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SCR Goffredo Alessandrini, Corrado Álvaro, Oreste Biancoli, Anton Giulio Majano, Ayn Rand, Orio Vergani

CAST Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti, Rossano Brazzi, Emilio Cigoli, Giovanni Grasso, Annibale Betrone, Elvira Betrone, Sennuccio Benelli, Cesarina Gheraldi, Silvia Manto, Gioia Collei, Bianca Doria, Lamberto Picasso, Claudia Marti, Evelina Paoli, Mario Pisu, Gina Sammarco, Guglielmo Sinaz, Gero Zambuto, Raf Vallone

PROD DES Giorgio Abkhasi, Andrea Belobodoroff

Doomed love within a corrupt political world. At 18, the beautiful and smart Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out. Meanwhile, a Party leader, Andrei, also loves her, and she feigns love for him to get political protection for Leo and money to pay for his TB treatment. But can Leo forgive her being Andrei’s mistress? Subplots dramatize Party corruption, the disillusion of those who fought hardest in the revolution, and reflections on the man’s individual nature. —IMDb