Un giorno nella vita (“A Day in Life”) is a 1946 Italian war film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. American title: “A Day In the Life”. This film was screened in 2009 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s retrospective “Life Lessons” Italian Neorealism and the birth of modern cinema.
Plot
A group of partisans seek refuge in a cloistered convent. The sisters reluctantly aid the ailing men, but not without terrible consequences. A day in the life offers an image of a big tent Italy, in which the differences that had earlier cleaved society, especially between the church and the political Left, are temporarily tabled for the higher cause of national unity.
Cast
Enzo Biliotti – Don Eusebio
Elisa Cegani – Suor Maria
Ada Colangeli – Suor Gaetana
Ada Dondini – Madre Superiora
Arnoldo Foà – Brusan
Massimo Girotti – Luigi Monotti
Flavia Grande – Suor Luisa
Mariella Lotti – Suor Bianca
Dante Maggio – Carlo
Secondo Maronetto – Macchi
Marcella Melnati – Suor Pace
Luciano Mondolfo – Damiano Santoni
Gino Mori – Rino
Amedeo Nazzari – Captain De Palma
Ave Ninchi – Suor Celeste
Amalia Pellegrini – Suor Scolastica
Adam Perkal – German Captain
Antonio Pierfederici – Giovanni
Rolando Purgatori – American doctor
Goliarda Sapienza – Suor Speranza
Dina Sassoli – Suor Teresa
Cinema Neorealismo Italiano 