Unjustified Absence (1939)

Original title

Assenza ingiustificata

Directed by

Max Neufeld

Genre

comedy film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 33m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman marries a doctor after leaving school. She gets fed up with him being away all the time, so she secretly goes back to her studies.

lightheartedplayfulslightly frustratedcozydeterminedmischievousnostalgicbrisk

What happens

Unjustified Absence (Italian: Assenza ingiustificata) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi. A girl leaves school to marry a doctor, but becomes annoyed by his constant absences and decides to secretly resume her studies. It was shot at Cinecittà Studios with sets designed by the art director Gastone Medin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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