Un giorno nella vita is a 1946

1946 in film

The year 1946 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*November 21 - William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives premieres in New York featuring an ensemble cast including Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell.*December 20 - Frank Capra's It's a...

 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:...

 war film

War film

War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...

 directed by Alessandro Blasetti

Alessandro Blasetti

Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole...

. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival

1946 Cannes Film Festival

The 1st Cannes Film Festival was held from September 20 to October 5, 1946.- Jury :*Georges Huisman *Iris Barry *Beaulieu *Antonin Brousil *J.H.J...

. 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
  Enzo Biliotti
  Enzo 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...
  
   - Don Eusebio
• Elisa Cegani
  Elisa Cegani
  Elisa Cegani was an Italian actress. She appeared in 60 films between 1935 and 1983.-Selected filmography:* Me, Me, Me.....
  
   - Suor Maria
• Ada Colangeli - Suor Gaetana
• Ada Dondini
  Ada Dondini
  Ada Dondini was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 48 films between 1916 and 1954. She was born in Cosenza, Italy and died in Chieti, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Mr...
  
   - Madre Superiora
• Arnoldo Foà
  Arnoldo Foà
  Arnoldo Foà is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in over 130 films since 1938. He was born in Ferrara, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Un giorno nella vita * Bellezze in bicicletta...
  
   - Brusan
• Massimo Girotti
  Massimo Girotti
  Massimo 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...
  
   - Luigi Monotti
• Flavia Grande - Suor Luisa
• Mariella Lotti - Suor Bianca
• Dante Maggio
  Dante Maggio
  Dante Maggio was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 115 films between 1940 and 1975.-Selected filmography:* Un giorno nella vita * Canzone di primavera * Bellezze in bicicletta...
  
   - Carlo
• Secondo Maronetto - Macchi
• Marcella Melnati - Suor Pace
• Luciano Mondolfo - Damiano Santoni
• Gino Mori - Rino
• Amedeo Nazzari
  Amedeo Nazzari
  Amedeo Nazzari was an Italian actor.Star of Italian cinema during the 40's and 50's. He made several melodramas with Raffaello Matarazzo, such as Catene in 1949...
  
   - Captain De Palma
• Ave Ninchi
  Ave Ninchi
  Ave 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,...
  
   - Suor Celeste
• Amalia Pellegrini - Suor Scolastica
• Adam Perkal - German Captain
• Antonio Pierfederici - Giovanni
• Rolando Purgatori - American doctor
• Goliarda Sapienza - Suor Speranza
• Dina Sassoli
  Dina Sassoli
  Dina Sassoli was an Italian film actress. She was born on 5 August 1920, in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was best known for her work with Italian director, Mario Camerini. She died on 24 March 2008 in Rome, Italy....
  
  - Suor Teresa