Family Diary
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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.
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Marcello Mastroianni
Enrico
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Marco Guglielmi
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Valerio Zurlini Director · Mario Missiroli Screenplay Vasco Pratolini Author
First release September 28, 1962 · Produced in Italy · Original title Cronaca familiare
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Titanus
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Italy
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Original title
Cronaca familiare
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · September 28, 1962
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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