The Most Wonderful Moment is a 1957

1957 in film

The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.-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 Luciano Emmer

Luciano Emmer

Luciano Emmer was an Italian film director. He was born in Milan. He won a Golden Globe in 1951 for Pictura...

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This drama deals with natural childbirth

Natural childbirth

Natural Childbirth is a philosophy of childbirth that is based on the notion that women who are adequately prepared are innately able to give birth without routine medical interventions. Natural childbirth arose in opposition to the techno-medical model of childbirth that has recently gained...

, and was described as "clinically pure, informative, edifying and, on occasion, tenderly dramatic". Pietro, a young champion of natural childbirth, is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she participates in breathing exercises, physical training and lectures explaining the physiology of parturition

Childbirth

Childbirth is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus...

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Cast

• Marcello Mastroianni
  Marcello Mastroianni
  Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...
  
   - Pietro Valeri
• Giovanna Ralli
  Giovanna Ralli
  Giovanna Ralli is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome, 2 January 1935.Ralli won a Nastro d'Argento for her supporting role in C'eravamo tanto amati.- Filmography :* I bambini ci guardano by Vittorio De Sica...
  
   - Luisa Morelli
• Marisa Merlini
  Marisa Merlini
  Marisa Merlini was an Italian character actress active in Italy's post-World War II cinema. Merlini appreared in over fifty films during her career, which spanned from World War II to 2005...
  
   - Margherita Rosati
• Bice Valori
  Bice Valori
  Bice Valori was an Italian show girl and actress.Valori was born in Rome. She was the wife of actor Paolo Panelli....
  
   - Carla
• Memmo Carotenuto
  Memmo Carotenuto
  Memmo Carotenuto was an Italian actor. He appeared in 125 films between 1941 and 1979.-Selected filmography:* Assassination in Rome * Male Companion * Ten Ready Rifles...
  
   - Ticket collector
• Ernesto Calindri
  Ernesto Calindri
  Ernesto Calindri was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 40 films between 1938 and 1989.-Selected filmography:* The Children Are Watching Us * A Night of Fame * L'ultimo amante...
  
   - Director of clinic
• Riccardo Garrone
  Riccardo Garrone (actor)
  Riccardo Garrone is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in over 140 films since 1949.-Selected filmography:* Two Nights with Cleopatra * Woman of Rome * Doctor and the Healer...
  
   - Dr. Benvenuti
• Emilio Cigoli
  Emilio Cigoli
  Emilio Cigoli was an Italian film actor and voice actor.He appeared in 41 films between 1935 and 1980, mostly in supporting roles. However, he found great success as a dubber, eventually doing voice work for over 7000 films...
  
   - Morelli
• Giuliano Montaldo
  Giuliano Montaldo
  Giuliano Montaldo is an Italian film director.While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for the role of leading actor in the film Achtung! Banditi!...
  
   - Don Grazini
• Sergio Bergonzelli - Mister Mancini
• Vittorio André - Prof. Grimaldi (as Victor André)
• Clara Bindi - Matilde Fontana
• Edda Soligo - Head of home
• Roswita Schmidt - Marcella Novelli
• Franco Orsini - Dr. Redi
• Rolfo Micalizzi - Anselmo Masucci