Family Diary (1962)
September 28, 1962Release Date
Family Diary (1962)
September 28, 1962Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Marcello Mastroianni
Enrico
Jacques Perrin
Lorenzo Mainardi
Salvo Randone
Salocchi
Valeria Ciangottini
Enzina
Sylvie
Grandmother
Marco Guglielmi
Serena Vergano
Hospital Nun
Marcella Valeri
Franca Pasut
Nino Fuscagni
Miranda Campa
Valerio Zurlini
Director / Screenplay
Giuseppe Rotunno
Director of Photography
Mario Serandrei
Editor
Gaia Romanini
Costume Design
Angelo Novi
Still Photographer
Vasco Pratolini
Novel
Mario Missiroli
Screenplay
Goffredo Petrassi
Original Music Composer
Goffredo Lombardo
Producer
Giorgio Adriani
Production Manager
Flavio Mogherini
Production Design
Piero Schivazappa
First Assistant Director
Enrico Cignitti
Camera Operator
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 28, 1962
Original NameCronaca familiare
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 48m
Filming LocationsFlorence, Italy
Genres
Wiki.
Family Diary (Italian: Cronaca familiare) is a 1962 Italian film directed by Valerio Zurlini and based on the novel by Vasco Pratolini. It tells the story of two brothers (played by Marcello Mastroianni and Jacques Perrin) who are brought up apart from each other at their mother's death, then brought together by difficult family circumstances.
Described by Elliot Stein in The Village Voice as "the classiest 'male weepie' ever filmed", Family Diary is an exemplary adaptation of the semi-autobiographical Vasco Pratolini novel Two Brothers, and won Zurlini a shared Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Marcello Mastroianni gives a sensitive, finely judged performance as Enrico, a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. 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.
Beautifully photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno, this austere, deeply felt masterwork has been acclaimed as one of Zurlini's greatest achievements.