Difficult Years

7.8

Italy

Drama

110 min

1948

Umberto Spadaro Rosetta Calavetta Ermanno Randi Loris Gizzi Carlo Sposito Agostino Salvietti Olinto Cristina Giovanni Grasso Milly Vitale Aldo Silvani Ernesto Almirante Delia Scala Massimo Girotti Enzo Biliotti Ave Ninchi Sandro Ruffini

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.