Difficult Years

Year: 1948

Runtime: 110 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Luigi Zampa

Drama

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist Party. When World War II erupts, he can only whisper dissent against Mussolini while his son Giovanni is sent to the front. By the war’s end Aldo finally summons the courage to openly oppose the regime, but it comes too late.

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