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A Special Day
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1977 film by Ettore Scola
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8.1Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
Cast
- Sophia Loren as Antonietta Taberi
- Marcello Mastroianni as Gabriele
- John Vernon as Emanuele Taberi
- Françoise Berd as Concierge
- Patrizia Basso as Romana Taberi
- Tiziano De Persio as Arnaldo Taberi
Themes
- rome, italy
- fascism
- housewife
- benito mussolini
- male homosexuality
- neighbor
- 1930s
- gay theme
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Ratings
IMDb
8.1/10
17,571 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
- Year
- 1977
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Nominated for 2 Oscars. 13 wins & 5 nominations total
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Key facts
- Italian
- Una giornata particolare
- Directed by
- Ettore Scola
- Written by
- Ruggero Maccari , Ettore Scola, Maurizio Costanzo
- Produced by
- Carlo Ponti
- Starring
- Sophia Loren , Marcello Mastroianni
- Cinematography
- Pasqualino De Santis
- Edited by
- Raimondo Crociani
- Music by
- Armando Trovajoli
- Production companies
- Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, Canafox Films
- Distributed by
- Gold Film (Italy)
- Release dates
- 17 May 1977 ( 1977-05-17 ) ( Cannes ) 12 August 1977 ( 1977-08-12 ) (Italy)
- Running time
- 106 minutes
- Countries
- Italy, Canada
- Language
- Italian
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Encyclopedic overview
A Special Day (Italian: Una giornata particolare) is a 1977 period drama film directed and co-written by Ettore Scola, produced by Carlo Ponti, and starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Set in Rome in 1938, its narrative follows a housewife (Loren) and her neighbor (Mastroianni) who stay home the day Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini.
Themes addressed in the film include gender roles, fascism, and the persecution of homosexuals under the Mussolini regime.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “A Special Day” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.