A SPECIAL DAY

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Italian cinema dream team Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni are cast against glamorous type, delivering two of the finest performances of their careers in this moving, quietly subversive drama from Ettore Scola. Though it is set in Rome on the historic day in 1938 when Benito Mussolini and the city first rolled out the red carpet for Adolf Hitler, the film takes place entirely in a working-class apartment building, where an unexpected friendship blossoms between a pair of people who have not joined the festivities: a conservative housewife and mother tending to her domestic duties and a liberal radio broadcaster awaiting deportation. Scola paints an exquisite portrait in muted tones, a story of two individuals helpless in the face of fascism’s rise. (Note courtesy of Janus Films.) DIR/SCR Ettore Scola; SCR Ruggero Maccari; PROD Carlo Ponti. Italy, 1977, 107 min. In Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Run Time: 107 Minutes

Opening Date: Friday, September 05, 2025

Genre: Drama

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