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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.
Nov 29, 2021 · A Special Day: Film Review. Set in 1938, the backdrop to ‘Una Giornata Particolare’ is Hitler’s visit to Rome on May 6th and in fact the entire film takes place over the course of just this one day.
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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Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938. It's the late 1930's Rome. It's a national holiday in Italy today for the first state visit of Adolf Hitler to the country.
In Rome, fascist supporter Emanuele (John Vernon) attends a parade commemorating Adolf Hitler's historic meeting with Italian leader Benito Mussolini, leaving his...
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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 15, 2015 · Instead, A Special Day sets aside humor to look back at a grim red-letter day and its personal implications. In the quietly lyrical screenplay, written by Scola and Maccari, the historic occasion is the backdrop to a brief encounter between two lonely people.
