Difficult Years
Encyclopedia
Difficult Years is a 1948
Italian
drama film
directed by Luigi Zampa
and starring Umberto Spadaro
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1948 in film
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :...
Italian
Cinema of Italy
The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome....
and starring Umberto Spadaro
Umberto Spadaro
Umberto Spadaro was an Italian film actor.He appeared in around 95 films between 1940 and 1979. His brother Peppino Spadaro was also an actor.-External links:...
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Cast
- Umberto SpadaroUmberto SpadaroUmberto Spadaro was an Italian film actor.He appeared in around 95 films between 1940 and 1979. His brother Peppino Spadaro was also an actor.-External links:...
- Aldo Piscitello - Massimo GirottiMassimo GirottiMassimo Girotti was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades.Born in Mogliano, in the province of Macerata, Girotti developed his athletic physique by swimming and polo...
- Giovanni - Ave NinchiAve NinchiAve Ninchi was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage, television, and in over 98 feature films that included Tomorrow Is Too Late and Louis Malle's Lacombe Lucien . She has worked with some of Italy's top movie stars, including Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni,...
- Rosina - Delia ScalaDelia ScalaDelia Scala was an Italian ballerina and actress.Born Odette Bedogni in Bracciano, Lazio, Italy, as a young girl the family moved to Milan where she studied ballet at "La Scala" Ballet School for seven years...
- Elena (as Odette Bedogni) - Ernesto Almirante - Grandpa
- Milly VitaleMilly VitaleCamilla "Milly" Vitale , daughter of conductor Riccardo Vitale and choreographer Natasha Shidlowski, was an Italian actress....
- Maria - Enzo BiliottiEnzo BiliottiEnzo Biliotti was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1916 and 1958.He was born in Livorno, Italy and died in Bologna, Italy.-Selected filmography:* I Love You Only...
- The Baron - Carlo Sposito - Riccardo (as Carletto Sposito)
- Loris Gizzi - The Fascist minister
- Aldo SilvaniAldo SilvaniAldo Silvani was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 112 films between 1934 and 1964.He was born in Turin, Italy and died in Milan, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Four Steps in the Clouds...
- The pharmacist