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Adventure Drama Romance War. The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear - the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the grublike fat of the appeasers and oppressors.
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- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Goffredo Alessandrini
- 1942-10-20
We the Living is a two-part 1942 Italian romantic war drama film, based on Ayn Rand 's 1936 novel of the same name. It was originally released as two films, Noi vivi (literally "We the living") and Addio Kira ("Goodbye Kira"). It was directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and produced by Scalera Film, and stars Alida Valli as Kira Argounova, Rossano ...
Premiering at the Venice Film Festival in 1942, We the Living was hailed as a cinematic masterpiece. Due to its original running time of almost four hours, it was released in theaters in two parts: Noi Vivi and Addio Kira. It was an immediate box-office sensation, becoming the top-grossing film in Italy in 1942.
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- Goffredo Alessandrini
The story of the production, original Italian release, re-edit, and American release (nearly 45 years later) of Goffredo Alessandrini's NOI VIVI (1942/1986), a.k.a. WE THE LIVING, could comprise its own epic motion picture.
Overview. At 18, the beautiful and intelligent 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.
