Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.
Cast
Mariangela Melato
Mara Castorelli
Delphine Seyrig
Adriana Vivanti
Lou Castel
Osvaldo
Aurore Clément
Angelica Vivanti
Fabio Carpi
Fabio Colarosa
Marcella Michelangeli
Viola Vivanti
Isa Danieli
Livia
Alfonso Gatto
Padre Vivanti
Eriprando Visconti
Filippo
Renato Romano
Oreste
Adriana Innocenti
Matilde
Costantino Carrozza
marito di Livia
Alfredo Pea
cognato di Livia
Loredana Martínez
cugina di Mara
Eleonora Morana
domestica di Colarosa
Carlotta Wittig
Domestica di Angelica
Giuliana Calandra
Ada
Luca Dal Fabbro
Ray
Crew
Mario Monicelli
Director
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Screenplay
Tonino Guerra
Screenplay
Natalia Ginzburg
Novel
Ruggero Mastroianni
Editor
Gasperina Marani
Assistant Editor
Tonino Delli Colli
Director of Photography
Rinaldo Ricci
First Assistant Director
Piero Lazzari
Production Coordinator
Enzo Nigro
Production Supervisor
Gianni Hecht Lucari
Producer
Lorenzo Baraldi
Production Design
Giuseppe Maccari
Camera Operator
Carlo Tafani
Camera Operator
Giuseppe Buonaurio
Assistant Camera
Giancarlo Granatelli
Assistant Camera
Sandro Battaglia
Assistant Camera
Vittoria Guaita
Assistant Costume Designer
Gitt Magrini
Costume Design
Marisa Fraticelli
Hairstylist
Rosa Luciani
Hairstylist
Nilo Jacoponi
Makeup Artist
Alfredo Marazzi
Makeup Artist
Alberto Tinebra
Sound Mixer
Roberto Petrozzi
Sound
Nino Rota
Original Music Composer
Massimo Tavazzi
Set Decoration
Bruno Bruni
Still Photographer
Lodovico Gasparini
Script Supervisor
Carlo Savina
Conductor
Alberto De Stefani
Administration
Carlo Del Marro
Administration
Donato Bitetto
Production Secretary
