C'eravamo tanto amati (1974)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Ettore Scola

Writers:

Agenore Incrocci (story) &
Furio Scarpelli (story) ...

Release Date:

23 May 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

A many splendored thing.

Plot:

Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war...

Plot Keywords:

Italy | Black & White To Color | Nostalgia | Resistance | Cult Director

Awards:

4 wins

Cast

Nino Manfredi	...	Antonio
Vittorio Gassman	...	Gianni Perego
Stefania Sandrelli	...	Luciana Zanon
Stefano Satta Flores	...	Nicola Palumbo
Giovanna Ralli	...	Elide Catenacci, Romolo's daughter
Aldo Fabrizi	...	Romolo Catenacci
Mike Bongiorno	...	Himself
Federico Fellini	...	Himself
Marcello Mastroianni	...	Himself
Nello Meniconi	...	Himself
Guidarino Guidi	...	Himself
Pierluigi	...	Himself
Alfonso Crudele	...	Edoardo
Isa Barzizza	...	Elena
Marcella Michelangeli	...	Gabriella

Also Known As:

We All Loved Each Other So Much (USA)

Runtime:

USA:124 min | Italy:124 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Black and White | Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

France:U | Netherlands:16 (original rating) | Argentina:Atp | Finland:S | Spain:13 | Sweden:11

Filming Locations:

Fontana di Trevi, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Dean Cinematografica Delta

Trivia:

The original Italian title, "C'eravamo tanto amati," is the first line of the 1918 popular song "Come pioveva", by Italian singer-songwriter Armando Gill.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Zomergasten: (#14.4)" (2001)

Friendship, Italian style.

Director Ettore Scola weaves a sensitive comedy-drama about the friendship of three men and the one woman each has loved. The men meet each other near the end of the Nazi occupation of Italy. As the next thirty years pass they remain friends although their lives take very different paths and become tinged with sadness and regret. The woman who pops in and out of their lives is Luciana (Stefania Sandrelli), an aspiring actress whose career peaks when she is cast as an extra in a Fellini movie. The three perennial friends are played by Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi and Stefano Satta Flores. Veteran actor Aldo Fabrizi (the priest in OPEN CITY) does a remarkable turn as a powerful industrialist who is as grotesquely unlikeable as he is grotesquely corpulent. Film buffs will enjoy the way Scola has cleverly included footage of DeSica's THE BICYCLE THIEF along with scenes of De Sica explicating that famous movie of his. They will also enjoy a funny re-creation of the filming of the Trevi fountain scene from LA DOLCE VITA, complete with Marcello Mastroianni and Federico Fellini. This is a very beautiful film about how individuals and society change over the years while friendship, "amicizia", remains an enduring value.