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A Difficult Life (1961)

A Difficult Life poster
Original title
Una vita difficile
Directed by
Dino Risi
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 55m
Rated
0
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 134 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man struggles through the ups and downs of post-war Italian life. His personal and professional plans keep colliding with the country's changing politics and society.

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What happens

A Difficult Life (Italian: Una vita difficile) is a Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy film directed by Dino Risi in 1961. 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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