To Live in Peace

To Live in Peace
To Live in Peace
Directed by	Luigi Zampa
Written by	Suso Cecchi d'Amico; Aldo Fabrizi; Piero Tellini; Luigi Zampa
Produced by	Clemente Fracassi; Carlo Ponti
Starring	Aldo Fabrizi ; John Kitzmiller ; Ave Ninchi
Cinematography	Carlo Montuori; Mario Montuori
Edited by	Adriana Novelli
Music by	Nino Rota
Production; company	Lux Film
Distributed by	Lux Film
Release date	11 September 1947;
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Box office	126 million lira

To Live in Peace (Italian: Vivere in pace) is a 1947 Italian neorealist comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Aldo Fabrizi, John Kitzmiller and Ave Ninchi.^[2]^[3] It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location around Orvieto in Umbria. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ivo Battelli.

Cast

Aldo Fabrizi as Tigna
Gar Moore as Ronald
Mirella Monti as Silvia
John Kitzmiller as Joe
Heinrich Bode as Hans
Ave Ninchi as Corinna
Ernesto Almirante as Il Nonno
Nando Bruno as Il Segretario Politico
Aldo Silvani as Il Medico
Gino Cavalieri as Il Parroco
Piero Palermini as Franco
Franco Serpilli as Citto

Awards and nominations

OCIC-Prize at The World Film and Fine Arts Festival in Brussels, 1947: OCIC jury verdict : This film is amongst the films presented most able to contribute to the spiritual and moral revival of humanity. This first jury of the International Catholic Office of Cinema (OCIC) consisted out of the Jesuit Fr Charles Reinert (Switzerland), the Dominican Fr Léo Lunders O.P. (Belgium), Diego Fabbri (Italy), Luis de Zulueta (Spain), André Ruszkowski (France) and Roger Stengel (Belgium)

References

^ Chiti & Poppi p.405
^ Ben-Ghia p.297
^ Gundle p.138

Bibliography

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema. Indiana University Press, 2015.
Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
Gundle, Stephen. Fame Amid the Ruins: Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism. Berghahn Books, 2019.

External links

To Live in Peace at IMDb
To Live in Peace at AllMovie

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[1] Chiti & Poppi p.405

[2] Ben-Ghia p.297

[3] Gundle p.138

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