Within the framework of the Italian comedy Festival E’ FINITA LA COMMEDIA? 2018, a movie by Ettore Scola, with Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Alessandra Mussolini, Françoise Berd.
Marcello Mastroianni are cast against glamorous type and deliver two of the finest performances of their careers in this moving, quietly subversive drama from Ettore Scola. Though it’s 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 haven’t 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.
In Italian, with Hebrew & English subtitles.
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“E’ finita la Commedia? Italian comedy Festival in Israel” is a cultural event organized by the Italian Cultural Institutes of Tel Aviv and Haifa and the Cultural Association ADAMAS (Italy-Israel), under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Israel, in collaboration with the Cinematheques of Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Holon, Herzliya, Rosh Pina and Sderot.
Saturday, October 27th, at 18:30
Haifa Cinematheque, 142 Hanassi Avenue, Haifa