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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Femmina incatenata (1949)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.