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In Olden Days | |
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Directed by | Alessandro Blasetti |
Written by | Alessandro Blasetti Suso Cecchi d'Amico Oreste Biancoli Sandro Continenza Vitaliano Brancati Aldo De Benedetti Turi Vasile Filippo Mercati Brunello Rondi |
Produced by | Carlo Civallero |
Starring | Gina Lollobrigida Amedeo Nazzari Vittorio De Sica Elisa Cegani |
Cinematography | Carlo Montuori Gábor Pogány |
Edited by | Mario Serandrei |
Music by | Alessandro Cicognini |
Production company | |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Films (Italy) |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
In Olden Days (Italian: Altri tempi) is a 1952 Italian comedy drama anthology film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and featuring an ensemble cast that included Gina Lollobrigida, Amedeo Nazzari, Vittorio De Sica, Elisa Cegani, Barbara Florian, Aldo Fabrizi, Andrea Checchi and Alba Arnova. [1] [2] It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Dario Cecchi and Veniero Colasanti. It is also known as Times Gone By and Infidelity.
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Obtained from a short story by Edoardo Scarfoglio, and referring to an ancient story of the ethereal Phryne, he remained famous above all because Vittorio De Sica, in the role of the defender of the prosperous graces of a commoner (played by Gina Lollobrigida), coined the term "increased physics" which will in fact mark an era and will be widely used throughout the 1950s and most of the 1960s. The exact reference, in the sentence pronounced in the film by De Sica during the speech, is: "increased physics" as opposed to the phrase "psychic handicapped".
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