Family Diary
Sep 28 1962
•2h 48m
•Drama
Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.
Cast
See allMarcello Mastroianni
Enrico
Jacques Perrin
Lorenzo Mainardi
Salvo Randone
Salocchi
Valeria Ciangottini
Enzina
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