Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere (internationally released as Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Lino Del Fra.[1] It was awarded with the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.[2]
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| Directed by | Lino Del Fra |
| Starring | Lea Massari |
| Music by | Egisto Macchi |
| Cinematography | Gábor Pogány |
| Edited by | Silvano Agosti |
Release date | 1977 |
| Language | Italian |
Plot
Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist courts, relives the stages of his political career and private life: in particular the foundation of the Italian Communist Party, the useless resistance to the right-wing offensive, marriage, arrest, the conflict with Palmiro Togliatti. In prison, the politician is first considered a hero, then shunned because of his unconventional views on Stalin and the authoritarian involution of the USSR. Discharged from prison for health reasons, he died in 1937 in a clinic in Rome.
Cast
- Riccardo Cucciolla as Antonio Gramsci
- Lea Massari as Tania
- Mimsy Farmer as Giulia
- Jacques Herlin as Lo Santo
- Franco Graziosi as Dmitry Manuilsky
- Andrea Aureli as anarchist
- Umberto Raho as chaplain
- Luigi Pistilli as Gennaro Gramsci
- John Steiner as Laurin
- Biagio Pelligra as Bruno
- Paolo Bonacelli as Bocchini
- Antonio Piovanelli as Athos
- Luciano Bartoli as Worker in Turin
- Severino Saltarelli as Giovanni Laj
- Rate Furlan as Director of the prison
- Gianfranco Bullo as Palmiro Togliatti
- Pier Giovanni Anchisi as Worker in Turin
- Pier Paolo Capponi as Enrico
- Claudio Carafoli as Ercole
- Pier Luigi Giorgio as Giuseppe
- Gianni Pulone as Worker in Turin
- Pino Ammendola as
- Pietro Biondi as
- Sergio Gibello as
- Antonio La Raina as
- Fabrizio Miglione as
- Raymond Pellegrin as
- Bruno Rosa as
- Gino Usai as