- A Difficult Life
Infobox_Film
name = A Difficult Life
imdb_id =
writer =Rodolfo Sonego
starring =Alberto Sordi Lea Massari Franco Fabrizi Claudio Gora
director =Dino Risi
producer =Dino De Laurentiis
music =Carlo Savina
distributor =
released =December 19 ,1961
runtime = 118 min
language = Italian
budget ="A Difficult Life" (Italian: "Una vita difficile") is a
Commedia all'italiana film directed byDino Risi in1961 .Plot
Silvio (
Alberto Sordi ) is an Italian partisan, he and his commpanions belong toItalian resistance movement against nazis. They are atLake Como . He is helped by Elena (Lea Massari ). He spends three months hidden on Helena's grandfather's mill. They fall in love. Silvio is an idealist, communist, journalist writer. He goes back to war. The story of Italy from 1945 to 1960, from WWII to theBirth of the Italian Republic , the elections and Silvio's ideals of theItalian Communist Party , his stay in jail, his disappointments, his crises with Elena, his attempts to get his works published and to sell his film scripts inCinecittà toAlessandro Blasetti ,Silvana Mangano andVittorio Gassman (they appears as themselves). From times of poverty in 1944 to the miracle of theEconomy of Italy in 1960.Cult Scenes
Some scenes are famous in the History of
Italian Cinema . The dinner at Princess' palace with the referendum of theBirth of the Italian Republic ; Or, when Silvio asks a shepherd guard: "Dimmi, pastore, tu sei felice?". (Tell me, are you happy? ), or when, drunken Silvio spits all the cars that drive on the road after his wife had escape from a night club in a very longpiano sequenza shoot.External links
*imdb title|id=0055602|title=Una Vita difficile
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