A SPECIAL DAY [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1977
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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. Though it's set in Rome on the historic day in 1938 when Benito Mussolini and the city first rolled out the red carpet for Adolf Hitler, the film takes place entirely in a working-class apartment building, where an unexpected friendship blossoms between a pair of people who haven't joined the festivities: a conservative housewife and mother tending to her domestic duties and a liberal radio broadcaster awaiting deportation. Scola paints an exquisite portrait in muted tones, a story of two individuals helpless in the face of Fascism's rise.; ; Includes Human Voice (2014), starring Sophia Loren;
• Cast: Sophia Loren; Marcello Mastroianni; Alessandra Mussolini; Vittorio Guerrieri; Antonio Garibaldi; Maurizio Di Paolantonio; Tiziano De Persio; Patrizia Basso; Françoise Berd; John Vernon; King Victor Emmanuel III; Adolf Hitler; Nicole Magny; Galeazzo Ciano; Benito Mussolini; Ettore Scola; Ruggero Maccari; Maurizio Costanzo; Carlo Ponti; Pasqualino De Santis; Raimondo Crociani; Armando Trovajoli; Carlo Palmieri; Franco Bassi; Luciano Ricceri
• Director: Ettore Scola
• Runtime: 1:47
• Company: Gold Film, Compagnia Cinematografica Champion S.P.A., Canafox Films, Surf Film S.r.l., Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie