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A Special Day

Haifa Classics

Italian cinema dream team Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni deliver two of the finest performances of their careers

The Criterion Collection
  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Ettore Scola
  • Italy 1977
  • 107 minutes
  • Italian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English


On the historic day in 1938 when Rome first rolls out the red carpet for Adolf Hitler, an unexpected friendship blossoms between a conservative housewife tending to her domestic duties and a liberal radio broadcaster awaiting deportation.
Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni deliver two of the finest performances of their careers in this moving, quietly subversive drama from Ettore Scola (1931-2016).
Filmography: The Voyage of Captain Fracassa (1990), Splendor (1989), The Family (1987), Macaroni (1985), Le Bal (1983), That Night in Varennes (1982), Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976), We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974).
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  • Director Ettore Scola
  • Production Carlo Ponti
  • Script Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari
  • Cinematography Pasqualino De Santis
  • Editing Raimondo Crociani
  • Music Armando Trovajoli
  • Actors Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
  • Source Instituto Luce Cinecittà, Rome / Surf Film, Rome

A Special Day