Sotto il sole di Roma (1948)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Renato Castellani

Writers:

Sergio Amidei (writer)
Renato Castellani (writer)

Release Date:

2 October 1948 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Post War Italy | Neorealism | Part Of Trilogy | Rome Italy | Italy

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Oscar Blando	...	Ciro
Liliana Mancini	...	Iris
Francesco Golisano	...	Geppa
Ennio Fabeni	...	Bruno
Alfredo Locatelli	...	Nerone
Gaetano Chiurazzi	...	Bellicapelli
Anselmo Di Biagio	...	Dottorino
Ferruccio Tozzi	...	Ciro's Father
Maria Tozzi	...	Ciro's Mother
Giuseppina Fava	...	Janitor
Raffaele Caporilli	...	'Mbriaschini
Ilario Malaschini	...	Pirate
Omero Paoloni	...	Coccolone
Gisella Monaldi	...	Tosca
Alberto Sordi	...	Fernando

Also Known As:

Under the Sun of Rome

Runtime:

Italy:95 min | East Germany:82 min (TV)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-12

Filming Locations:

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Universalcine

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Zwischen Kino und Konzert - Der Komponist Nino Rota (1993)

Blurb.

UNDER THE SUN OF ROME is the first of a trilogy of great comedies which were directed by Renato Castellani after World War II. The other two are E' PRIMAVERA and DUE SOLDI DI SPERANZA. These movies all treat the hardships of post-war life seriously but also with a light and wistful comic touch. Here we see the lives of a group of some appealing young men in Nazified Rome and after the liberation. A shiftless young man manages to return home after being imprisoned by the Germans. After the war he takes up with a married woman then tries to blackmail her. During the course of the film his mother dies, his father is killed, and the shiftless kid must learn to confront life as a real man. As in many of the other neorealist films of the time, director Castellani cast non-professionals in all the key roles. The film is touching, humane, wise and too little known.