A Difficult Life

Year: 1961

Runtime: 118 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Dino Risi

DramaComedy

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

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