We All Loved Each Other So Much
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| Directed by | Ettore Scola |
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| Written by | Age & Scarpelli Ettore Scola |
| Starring | Stefania Sandrelli Vittorio Gassman Nino Manfredi Stefano Satta Flores Aldo Fabrizi Giovanna Ralli |
| Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
| Release date(s) | December 21, 1974 |
| Running time | 124 min. |
| Language | Italian |
C'eravamo tanto amati (English: We All Loved Each Other So Much) is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Ettore Scola and written by Scola and the famous screenwriter duo of Age & Scarpelli. It stars Stefania Sandrelli, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Stefano Satta Flores and Aldo Fabrizi, among others.
It is generally considered one of the finest and most influential movies of the so-called commedia all'italiana genre.[citation needed]
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Plot
In the first part (shot in black-and-white) the friends Gianni (Gassman), Antonio (Manfredi) and Nicola (Satta Flores) are partisans who fight for the liberation of Italy from the yoke of Nazi occupation and the fascist collaborationists aiding in it. After the end of World War II, the three go for different lives: Nicola in Nocera Inferiore (southern Italy), Antonio in Rome and Gianni in Pavia.
Later, both Antonio and Gianni fall in love with young Luciana (Sandrelli), and through their relationships go back to the history of post-war Italy, along with the related hopes and disappointments.
Gianni, now a lawyer's assistant, moves to Rome and arranges to marry the semi-illiterate daughter of a construction tycoon with questionable fame, a former fascist who managed to get good connections with the filoamerican conservative Christian democratic party egemonizing public life (and building licenses) in post-war Italy. His wife, resenting her inadequacy, tries to turn into the woman he longs for but ultimately fails and dies in a car accident which could even have been an elaborate form of suicide. Antonio, worker in a hospital, has instead remained loyal to the ideals of their youth, and is now a fervent communist activist. Nicola, the most intellectual of the trio, leaves Nocera and his family and moves to Rome, too, to try win a fortune on the famous TV quiz Lascia o raddoppia. After his failure, he leads an economically troubled life writing occasional articles for newspapers, increasingly turning himself into a caricature of an intellectual, lost into futile polemics.
After several decades the three friends meet again in the trattoria where they spent their last evening together, commenting quite bitterly on their lives. Antonio, the stretcher-carrier has less to complain and ruminate about and shows his other friends how Luciana has become his wife and he fathered two children with her. Later in the evening Nicola argues with him on ideological questions, arriving to physically attack him. In the conundrum Gianni loses his driving license and the following day Antonio, Nicola and Luciana try to deliver it back to him. They see his villa and realize the affluent lifestyle he's leading (something he dared not to "confess" to his friends the evening before) but also understand that, having to sacrifice his ideals for it, he's by far the less fortunate of them.
Awards
The film won a César Award for Best Foreign Film in 1977. It also won two Silver Ribbons (Italian cinema critics award, for Fabrizi and Ralli) and the Golden Prize in the 1975 Moscow International Film Festival.
Trivia
The film features popular figures of Italian cinema and TV in cameo appearances: These include directors Federico Fellini and Vittorio De Sica, TV anchorman Mike Bongiorno and actors Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg, all as themselves.
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