Long Night in 1943 (1960)
- Original title
- La lunga notte del '43
- Directed by
- Florestano Vancini
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 27 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In 1943, during the German occupation of Italy, a night of violence unfolds in the city of Ferrara. The film follows various townspeople as political tensions explode into a brutal massacre.
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What happens
Long Night in '43 (Italian: La lunga notte del '43) is an Italian drama film of 1960 set in Ferrara, in the Italian Social Republic German puppet state during the late stages of the Second World War. It was directed by Florestano Vancini and adapted by Vancini, Ennio De Concini and Pier Paolo Pasolini from a short story by Giorgio Bassani. The film stars Enrico Maria Salerno, Gino Cervi, Belinda Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti and Andrea Checchi. It was also known as The Long Night of '43 or It Happened in '43. The original Italian title was La lunga notte del '43. 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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