Difficult Years

IMDb link: 0040100
IMDb rating: 7.6 (282 votes)
Genres: Drama, War
Director: Luigi Zampa
Cast: Ave Ninchi, Massimo Girotti, Umberto Spadaro, Enzo Biliotti and others

Release date: 21 Aug 1950
Release year: 1948
Runtime: 90 minutes
Country: Italy
Keywords: man slaps a woman, neorealism, fascist, world war two, political consciousness, widow, marriage engagement, radio london, moral cowardice, cowardice

Plot:

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.

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