Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.

Director:

Vittorio De Sica

Writers:

Eduardo De Filippo (story), Eduardo De Filippo (screenplay)

Stars:

Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè

Won 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Sophia Loren	...	Adelina Sbaratti / Anna Molteni / Mara
Marcello Mastroianni	...	Carmine Sbaratti / Renzo / Augusto Rusconi
Aldo Giuffrè	...	Pasquale Nardella (segment "Adelina")
Agostino Salvietti	...	Dr. Verace (segment "Adelina")
Lino Mattera	...	Amedeo Scapece (segment "Adelina")
Tecla Scarano	...	Verace's sister (segment "Adelina")
Silvia Monelli	...	Elivira Nardella (segment "Adelina")
Carlo Croccolo	...	Auctioneer (segment "Adelina")
Pasquale Cennamo	...	Chief Police (segment "Adelina")
Tonino Cianci	...	(segment "Adelina") (as Antonio Cianci)
Armando Trovajoli	...	Giorgio Ferrario (segment "Anna")
Tina Pica	...	Grandmother Ferrario (segment "Mara")
Gianni Ridolfi	...	Umberto (segment "Mara") (as Giovanni Ridolfi)
Gennaro Di Gregorio	...	Grandfather (segment "Mara")

Storyline

Three different stories of Italian social mores are presented. In "Adelina", unemployed Carmine Sbaratti and his wife Adelina Sbaratti survive through Adelina selling black market cigarettes on the street. They are unable to pay for the furniture they bought (which is under Adelina's name), but are able to avoid the bailiff when he comes for the money or to repossess. They come up with a longer term solution to avoid Adelina being prosecuted for non-payment, but that solution has a profound effect on the family, especially Carmine. In "Anna", Anna Molteni, the spoiled wife of a successful businessman, and an artist named Renzo are on the cusp of an affair. Anna is feeling neglected in the marriage, as her husband seems more concerned about success and money than her. But a car accident shows both Anna and Renzo if an affair with each other is really what they want. In "Mara", Mara is a prostitute who works out of her apartment. She befriends Umberto, a young man visiting his ...

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Plot Keywords:

woman undressing | husband wife relationship | naples italy | actress playing multiple roles | actor playing multiple roles | 

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Taglines:

They're in Love Three Times and Three Ways...In One Movie!

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Italy France

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

17 March 1964 (USA)

Also Known As:

Ayer, hoy y mañana

Filming Locations:

Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, Les Films Concordia

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Italian censorship visa # 41787 delivered on 4-12-1963.

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Goofs

The handle of Umberto's suitcase breaks when Augusto tries to take it from him. In the next shot the handle is intact again.

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Quotes

Carmine Sbaratti: He wanted Adelina Sbaratti? He can shove it!
Dr. Verace (segment "Adelina"): That's all you know, lewd gestures, threats. Where do you think that will get you? You're in a real fix and at your own hands!

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Connections

Featured in The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007)

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Soundtracks

Core 'ngrato
(aka "Catari, Catari")
Music by Salvatore Cardillo
Lyrics by Riccardo Cordiferro

User Reviews

Blurb.

Two great performers of the Italian screen, Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren, star in this earthy three-episode film, directed by Vittorio De Sica and tailor-made for the two stars. The success of this film led to the making of MARRIAGE, Italian STYLE a year later. In the first of the three comic vignettes Sophia is a black marketeer in Naples who discovers that a pregnant woman cannot be put in jail and so tries to maintain perpetual pregnancy. Poor fatigued husband Mastroianni is barely up to the task, however, and this fact provides much of the humor. The middle episode, the least effective, has Loren as a Milanese rich-bitch of liberal attitudes but who likes to plow into other people's cars. In the last episode Sophia is a Roman prostitute, Mastroianni is her sex-crazed customer. Part of the story is about how she unwittingly almost destroys the vocation of a seminarian living in an apartment across the terrace. Seminarians, surrender!

Addendum: in 2005 a new DVD release in letterbox format allows us to see the movie in its original wide-screen CinemaScope ratio. It has the original Italian language version with an English-tract option and a subtitle option.