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Sep 29, 2022 · #MarcelloMastroianniA SPECIAL DAY (1977)Directed by Ettore ScolaMarcello Mastroianni Cinematography: Pasqualino De SantisGabriele – getting ready for his dep...
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In this episode, I talk about Ettore Scola's 1977 film, "A Special Day," starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in some of the most raw performances ...
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Italian cinema's most iconic screen couple, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni - here cast against glamorous type - deliver the finest and most nuanced performances of their career in this...
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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.
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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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.
Oct 18, 2017 · Long before muted, desaturated colors in historical period film became a common technique, director Ettore Scola used it to great effect in the 1977 meditation on fascism, A Special Day. The film opens with newsreel footage of Adolph Hitler's visit to Italy to meet with Benito Mussolini in May of 1940.
