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Unjustified Absence (1939)

Unjustified Absence poster
Original title
Assenza ingiustificata
Directed by
Max Neufeld
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 33m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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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.

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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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