A Difficult Life

A Difficult Life Italian Una vita difficile is a Commedia allitaliana or Italianstyle comedy film directed by Dino Risi in 1961. Parts of the movie scenes were filmed in Lierna, Lake Como.

The film spans the story of Italy from 1944 to 1960, from the times of poverty in World War II to the birth of the Italian Republic, the elections and Silvios ideals of the Italian 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 in Cinecitt to Alessandro Blasetti, Silvana Mangano and Vittorio Gassman they appear as themselves.Some scenes are famous in the history of Italian cinemacitation needed the dinner at Princess palace with the referendum of the Italian Republic when Silvio asks a shepherd guard, Dimmi, pastore, tu sei felice?. Tell me, are you happy? when a drunken Silvio spits at all the cars that drive by on the road after his wife had escaped from a night club in a very long piano sequenza shoot. ........

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