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Family Diary (Italian: Cronaca familiare) is a 1962 Italian film directed by Valerio Zurlini and is based on the novel by Vasco Pratolini. Enrico, played by Marcello Mastroianni, is a struggling artist in 1945 Rome who recently loses his brother, Lorenzo (played by Jacques Perrin) and recalls their tumultuous relationship and examines grief, existentialism, and the importance of familial ties[1].
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Directed by | Valerio Zurlini |
Written by | Mario Missiroli |
Produced by | Goffredo Lombardo |
Starring | Marcello Mastroianni Jacques Perrin Sylvie Valeria Ciangottini Salvo Randone |
Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
Edited by | Mario Serandrei |
Music by | Goffredo Petrassi |
Distributed by | Titanus Metro Goldwyn Mayer |
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Running time | 115 mins |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Described by Elliot Stein in The Village Voice as "the classiest 'male weepie' ever filmed",[2] Family Diary is an adaptation of the 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by Vasco Pratolini, Cronaca familiare, or in english Two Brothers.
At the 1962 Venice Film Festival Family Diary was awarded a Golden Lion for Best Picture Photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno, it has been acclaimed as one of Zurlini's greatest achievements.
Marcello Mastroianni plays Enrico, a struggling journalist in 1945 Rome. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin) has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship. He was raised by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother (Sylvie), while Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoiled brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilt and responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.