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Family Diary ()

Cronaca familiare (original title)
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A man recollects the life of his late younger brother.

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Enrico
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Lorenzo - nato Dino
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Nonna / Grandmother
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Salocchi
Valeria Ciangottini ...
Sandrina Zatti
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Suora / Hospital nun
Marcella Valeri ...
Signora Salocchi
Marco Guglielmi ...
Medico di turno / Hospital doctor
Nino Fuscagni ...
Soldato al ping pong / Soldier at ping pong
Miranda Campa ...
Padrona di casa / Housekeeper
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Angelo Casadei ...
Hospital visitor (uncredited)

Directed by

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Valerio Zurlini

Written by

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Vasco Pratolini ... (novel)
 
Valerio Zurlini ... (screenplay) and
Mario Missiroli ... (screenplay) and
Vasco Pratolini ... (screenplay)

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Goffredo Lombardo ... producer

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Goffredo Petrassi

Cinematography by

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Giuseppe Rotunno

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Mario Serandrei

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Giorgio Serrallonga ... assistant editor

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Flavio Mogherini

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Emilio D'Andria

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Gaia Romanini

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Rino Carboni ... makeup artist (as Nino Carboni)
Amalia Paoletti ... hair stylist

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Giorgio Adriani ... production manager

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Piero Schivazappa ... assistant director

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Giovanni Rossi ... sound

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Adolfo Bartoli ... lighting technician
Enrico Cignitti ... camera operator
Vladimiro Salvatori ... grip

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Franco Ferrara ... conductor

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Graziolina Campori ... continuity

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Claudio Agostinelli ... production secretary
Antonio Guadagnino ... production secretary
Marco Veiss ... production secretary
Giorgio Capecchi ... voice dubbing: Salvo Randone (uncredited)
Laura Carli ... voice dubbing: Sylvie (uncredited)
Pino Locchi ... voice dubbing: Marco Guglielmi (uncredited)
Massimo Turci ... voice dubbing: Jacques Perrin (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

1945. Enrico Corsi, in Rome, reflects on his relationship with his eight year younger brother, Lorenzo Corsi, following Lorenzo's recent passing from a long and debilitating illness at age twenty-seven in Florence. Their mother passed away days after Lorenzo's birth due to complications from the childbirth exacerbated by illness. With their veteran father still in hospital at the time unable to care for the children, Lorenzo was taken in by Sig. Salocchi, the butler of a wealthy English baron, literally to be raised as his and his wife's son in privilege, while Enrico remained with their maternal grandmother in relative poverty. The brothers did not truly get to spend time with and get to know each other until 1935 when Lorenzo was on the cusp of adulthood. For Enrico, theirs ended up being a largely strained but still loving relationship. Despite growing up in wealth, Lorenzo, who longed for what Enrico had, namely a history with blood relations, was unable to cope with real life once he no longer had access to that privilege. Although Enrico would admit that his own life was nowhere near perfect, he struggling to discover and thus achieve his own dreams, he tried to get Lorenzo at least to search for his place in life rather than just lament what could or did not be in what cards he was dealt. Written by Huggo

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Also Known As
  • Family Portrait (United States)
  • Vasco Pratolini's Family Diary - 1945 (World-wide, English title)
  • Family Diary (United States)
  • Journal intime (France)
  • Crónica familiar (Spain)
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  • 113 min
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Trivia Jacques Perrin had already played a boy named Lorenzo in the previous movie by Valerio Zurlini, "Girl with a Suitcase" See more »
Goofs In the later sequence in the hospital, there are hairs on the film in several scenes. See more »

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