Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Directed by	Lino Del Fra
Written by	Lino Del Fra Cecilia Mangini Piergiovanni Anchisi
Starring	Riccardo Cucciolla Lea Massari
Cinematography	Gábor Pogány
Edited by	Silvano Agosti
Music by	Egisto Macchi
Release date	1977 (1977)
Language	Italian

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]

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  [ it ] as Giovanni Laj
• Rate Furlan as Director of the prison
• Gianfranco Bullo  [ it ] as Palmiro Togliatti
• Pier Giovanni Anchisi  [ it ] as Worker in Turin
• Pier Paolo Capponi as Enrico
• Claudio Carafoli  [ it ] as Ercole
• Pier Luigi Giorgio as Giuseppe
• Gianni Pulone as Worker in Turin
• Pino Ammendola as
• Pietro Biondi as
• Sergio Gibello  [ it ] as
• Antonio La Raina  [ it ] as
• Fabrizio Miglione as
• Raymond Pellegrin as
• Bruno Rosa as
• Gino Usai as

References

1. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano - I Film. Gremese Editore, 1991. ISBN   8876055487.
2. Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN   88-7742-221-1.

External links

• Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison at IMDb