Struggle in Italy

Apr 29, 1971

1h 0m

★ 7.1

Overview

The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Cosmoseion

RAI

Anouchka Films

Groupe Dziga Vertov

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Cast

Paola Taviani (uncredited)

Cristiana Tullio-Altan

Father / Lecturer / Policeman / Porter (voice) (uncredited)

Paolo Pozzesi

Young Man (uncredited)

Jerome Hinstin

Store Clerk (uncredited)

Anne Wiazemsky

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