Un giorno nella vita
# Un giorno nella vita

Un giorno nella vita ("A Day in Life") is a 1946 Italian war film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. American title: "A Day In the Life". This film was screened in 2009 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's retrospective "Life Lessons" Italian Neorealism and the birth of modern cinema.

## Plot

A group of partisans seek refuge in a cloistered convent. The sisters reluctantly aid the ailing men, but not without terrible consequences. A day in the life offers an image of a big tent Italy, in which the differences that had earlier cleaved society, especially between the church and the political Left, are temporarily tabled for the higher cause of national unity.

## Cast

* Enzo Biliotti - Don Eusebio
* Elisa Cegani - Suor Maria
* Ada Colangeli - Suor Gaetana
* Ada Dondini - Madre Superiora
* Arnoldo Foà - Brusan
* Massimo Girotti - Luigi Monotti
* Flavia Grande - Suor Luisa
* Mariella Lotti - Suor Bianca
* Dante Maggio - Carlo
* Secondo Maronetto - Macchi
* Marcella Melnati - Suor Pace
* Luciano Mondolfo - Damiano Santoni
* Gino Mori - Rino
* Amedeo Nazzari - Captain De Palma
* Ave Ninchi - Suor Celeste
* Amalia Pellegrini - Suor Scolastica
* Adam Perkal - German Captain
* Antonio Pierfederici - Giovanni
* Rolando Purgatori - American doctor
* Goliarda Sapienza - Suor Speranza
* Dina Sassoli - Suor Teresa
