Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- France, Italy
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
- rape
- rome
- italy
- parent child relationship
- italy
- widow
- refugee
- peasant
- world war ii
- wartime
- single mother
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Carlo Ninchi — Filippo, il padre di Michele
- Andrea Checchi — un fasciste
- Pupella Maggio — un fermier
- Emma Baron — Maria
- Antonella Della Porta — La madre impazzita
- Bruna Cealti — une évacuée
- Luciano Pigozzi — Scimmione
- Franco Balducci — il tedesco nel pagliaio
- Mario Frera — Peppuccio
- Curt Lowens — ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea
- Luciana Cortellesi
- Directed
- Vittorio De Sica
- Written
- Cesare Zavattini
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 581 ratings
- Studio
- Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.), C. C. Champion, Les Films Marceau-Cocinor, Titanus
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
