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Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.Read moreLess
Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.
The story
Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.
Cast & crew
Mariangela MelatoMara Castorelli
Delphine SeyrigAdriana Vivanti
Lou CastelOsvaldo
Aurore ClémentAngelica Vivanti
Fabio CarpiFabio Colarosa
Marcella MichelangeliViola Vivanti
Isa DanieliLivia
Eriprando ViscontiFilippo
Renato RomanoOreste
Adriana InnocentiMatilde
Costantino Carrozzamarito di LiviaExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Suso Cecchi d'Amico
- Screenplay
- Tonino Guerra
- Original Music Composer
- Nino Rota
- Director of Photography
- Tonino Delli Colli
- Director
- Mario Monicelli
- Editor
- Ruggero Mastroianni
- Producer
- Gianni Hecht Lucari