City of Pain (1949)
- Original title
- La città dolente
- Directed by
- Mario Bonnard
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In postwar Italy, a community struggles with hardship and loss. The story follows ordinary people as they face the painful realities of rebuilding their lives.
melancholicslow-burnsomberrestrainedatmosphericreflectivehumanisticgritty
What happens
City of Pain (Italian: La città dolente) is a 1949 Italian drama film directed by Mario Bonnard. It was shown as part of a retrospective "Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato" at the 65th Venice International Film Festival. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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