Una giornata particolare/A Special Day (Film 1977 - ENG SUB)

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. Audio in Italian with English subtitles (Click on CC for subtitles).

Italian cinema dream team Sophia Loren and 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 housewife and mother tending to her domestic duties and a 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.

The film premiered at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. It earned several accolades and nominations, including David di Donatello Awards for Best Director (Scola) and Best Actress (Loren), a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and two Oscar nominations, for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor (Mastroianni).

In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."

Cast & Characters:
Sophia Loren as Antonietta Taberi
Marcello Mastroianni as Gabriele
John Vernon as Emanuele Taberi
Françoise Berd as Pauletta, the caretaker
Patrizia Basso as Romana Taberi
Tiziano De Persio as Arnaldo Taberi
Maurizio Di Paolantonio as Fabio Taberi
Antonio Garibaldi as Littorio Taberi
Vittorio Guerrieri as Umberto Taberi
Alessandra Mussolini as Maria Luisa Taberi
Nicole Magny as Officer's Daughter