Family Diary
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| Family Diary | |
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Metro Goldwyn Mayer | |
Release dates | September 1962 (premiere at VFF) 11 November 1963 (New York City) 8 December 1963 (United States) |
Running time | 115 mins |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Family Diary (
Described by Elliot Stein in The Village Voice as "the classiest 'male weepie' ever filmed",[1] Family Diary is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical Vasco Pratolini novel Two Brothers, and won Zurlini a shared Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Marcello Mastroianni plays Enrico, a struggling journalist in 1945 Rome. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin) has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship. He was raised by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother (Sylvie), while Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoiled brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilt and responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.
Photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno, this film has been acclaimed as one of Zurlini's greatest achievements.
Cast
- Marcello Mastroianni - Enrico
- Jacques Perrin - Lorenzo
- Sylvie - Grandmother
- Salvo Randone - Salocchi
- Valeria Ciangottini - Enzina
- Serena Vergano - Hospital Nun
- Marco Guglielmi
- Franca Pasut
- Miranda Campa
- Nino Fuscagni
- Marcella Valeri
References
- ^ Stein, Elliot. "Valerio Zurlini’s Autumn Tales", The Village Voice, 22 August 2000. Retrieved on 5 August 2016.
External links
- Family Diary at IMDb
- Family Diary at AllMovie
- [1] Martha King's English translation of Cronaca familiare as Family Chronicle.
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