A Special Day

Sophia Loren Director: Ettore Scola Ettore Scola

Overview

The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues into night, Loreon and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life. Beyond the "sensational" aspect of virile Marcello Mastoianni playing a gay character, A Special Day garnered a great deal of American attention when the stars promoted the film on the very first installment of PBS's Dick Cavett Show (that's the one in which Mastroianni might have said the F-word).

Product Details

Release Date:	10/13/2015
UPC:	0715515158718
Original Release:	1977
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Color]
Time:	1:47:00
Sales rank:	2,360

Special Features

New, restored 4K Digital Transfer, supervised by Director Ettore Scola, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Human Voice, a 2014 short film starring Sophia Loren and Directed by Edoardo Ponti; New interviews with Scola and Loren; Two 1977 episodes of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Loren and actor Marcello Mastroiani ; Trailer; Plus: An Essay by critic Deborah Young

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Sophia Loren	Antonietta
Marcello Mastroianni	Gabriele
John Vernon	Emanuele
Françoise Berd	Building Concierge
Alessandra Mussolini	Maria Luisa

Technical Credits

Ettore Scola

Maurizio Costanzo

Ruggero Maccari

Ettore Scola	Director,Screenwriter
Maurizio Costanzo	Screenwriter
Raimondo Crociani	Editor
Pasqualino De Santis	Cinematographer
Ruggero Maccari	Screenwriter
Carlo Ponti	Producer
Luciano Ricceri	Production Designer
Enrico Sabbatini	Costumes/Costume Designer
Armando Trovajoli	Score Composer