To Live in Peace

To Live in Peace
Directed by	Luigi Zampa
Written by	Suso Cecchi d'Amico Aldo Fabrizi Piero Tellini Luigi Zampa
Produced by	Clemente Fracassi Carlo Ponti
Starring	Aldo Fabrizi John Kitzmiller Ave Ninchi
Cinematography	Carlo Montuori Mario Montuori
Edited by	Adriana Novelli
Music by	Nino Rota
Production company	Lux Film
Distributed by	Lux Film
Release date	11 September 1947 (1947-09-11)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Box office	126 million lira [1]

To Live in Peace (Italian : Vivere in pace) is a 1947 Italian neorealist comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Aldo Fabrizi, John Kitzmiller and Ave Ninchi. ^{[2] [3]} It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location around Orvieto in Umbria. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ivo Battelli.

Cast

• Aldo Fabrizi as Tigna
• Gar Moore as Ronald
• Mirella Monti as Silvia
• John Kitzmiller as Joe
• Heinrich Bode as Hans
• Ave Ninchi as Corinna
• Ernesto Almirante as Il Nonno
• Nando Bruno as Il Segretario Politico
• Aldo Silvani as Il Medico
• Gino Cavalieri as Il Parroco
• Piero Palermini as Franco
• Franco Serpilli as Citto

Awards and nominations

• OCIC-Prize at The World Film and Fine Arts Festival in Brussels, 1947: OCIC jury verdict : This film is amongst the films presented most able to contribute to the spiritual and moral revival of humanity. This first jury of the International Catholic Office of Cinema (OCIC) consisted out of the Jesuit Fr Charles Reinert (Switzerland), the Dominican Fr Léo Lunders O.P. (Belgium), Diego Fabbri (Italy), Luis de Zulueta (Spain), André Ruszkowski (France) and Roger Stengel (Belgium)

References

1. Chiti & Poppi p.405
2. Ben-Ghia p.297
3. Gundle p.138

Bibliography

• Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema. Indiana University Press, 2015.
• Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
• Gundle, Stephen. Fame Amid the Ruins: Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism. Berghahn Books, 2019.

External links

• To Live in Peace at IMDb