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Thank you, Ettore Scola, for never losing heart.

Una giornata particolare (1977) was the best-known film by Italian director Ettore Scola, who died Tuesday in a Rome hospital. A film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in a moving yet incisive political drama that captured the hearts of a large audience. In it, Mastroianni is a radio worker fired for his homosexuality who meets his neighbour (Loren) on the day Adolf Hitler visits his colleague Benito Mussolini.

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

Una giornata particolare (1977) was the best-known film by Italian director Ettore Scola, who died Tuesday in a Rome hospital. A film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in a moving yet incisive political drama that captured the hearts of a large audience. In it, Mastroianni is a radio worker fired for his homosexuality who meets his neighbour (Loren) on the day Adolf Hitler visits his colleague Benito Mussolini.

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