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Family Diary

1962 · 1h 48m Drama
Directed by Valerio Zurlini

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Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.

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Mr. Mastroianni takes a static and precariously maudlin role and dresses it in a throbbing and infectious mood of woe.

Bosley Crowther, New York Times

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