''Easy Years'' ( it, Anni facili) is a
1953 drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa (2 January 1905 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film director.
Biography
Son of a worker, Zampa studied filmmaking from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome.
He directed several ...
and starring
Nino Taranto.
Cast
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Nino Taranto as Professor Luigi De Francesco
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Clelia Matania
Clelia Matania (28 March 1918 – 14 October 1981) was an Italian film and voice actress.
Life and career
Born in London, the daughter of the Capri-born naturalized Briton painter Fortunino Matania (best known as Saturnino), Matania attended t ...
as Rosina, his wife
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Giovanna Ralli
Giovanna Ralli, (born 2 January 1935), is an Italian stage, film and television actress.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Ralli debuted as a child actress at 7; at 13 she made her theatrical debut, entering the stage company of Peppino De Filip ...
as Teresa, his daughter
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Gino Buzzanca
Gino Buzzanca (8 March 1912 – 5 May 1985) was an Italian film actor.
Life and career
Born in Messina, Buzzanca began his career on stage, specializing as an actor of the Sicilian language theater, and starring in works by Luigi Pirande ...
as Baron Ferdinando La Prua
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Armenia Balducci
Armenia Balducci (13 March 1933 – 29 July 2022) was an Italian actress, screenwriter and director.
Biography
Balducci was elected Miss Testaccio and had a short acting career, acting under the pseudonym Bella Visconti, which spanned six films ...
as Baroness La Prua
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Salvatore Campochiaro as preside
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Flirt Consalvo
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I ...
as Rosolino Loffredo
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Gabriele Tinti as Piero Loffredo
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Angiola Maria Faranda as Teresa Loffredo
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Eleonora Tranchina as Assunta Loffredo
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Checco Durante as doorman Ministero
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Gildo Bocci
Gildo Bocci (1 September 1886 – 22 July 1964) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1913 and 1959. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.
Partial filmography
* ''Messalina'' (1924) - Apollonio
* ''Quo Vadis'' (1924) - ...
as usciere al Ministero
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Mara Berni as Vercesi, studentessa procace
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Guglielmo Inglese as capo divisione al Ministero
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Aldo Casino as comm. Larina
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Alda Mangini
Alda Mangini (1914–1954) was an Italian singer and film actress.Ponzi p.67 She appeared in several films alongside the Neapolitan comedian Totò.
She was married to the singer Alfredo Clerici
Alfredo (, ) is a cognate of the Anglo-Saxon name ...
as Fedora Larina
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Giovanni Grasso as Mario Rapisarda
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Turi Pandolfini
Turi Pandolfini (1 November 1883 – 6 March 1962) was an Italian stage and film character actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1917 and 1961.
Life and career
Born in Catania, Sicily as Salvatore Pandolfini, the nephew of the actor Ang ...
as the veteran
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Riccardo Billi
Riccardo Billi (22 April 1906 – 15 April 1982) was an Italian film actor and comedian. With Mario Riva he appeared as ''Billi & Riva'', one of the most popular Italian comic duos in the 1950s.
He appeared in around 85 films between 1938 ...
as himself
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Mario Riva
Mario Riva (26 January 1913 – 1 September 1960) was an Italian television presenter and actor. He appeared in 51 films between 1941 and 1960.
Life and career
Born in Rome as Mariuccio Bonavolontà, the son of a composer, Giuseppe (Joseph) ...
as himself
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Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno (; 9 January 1928 – 6 August 1994) was an Italian singer, actor and, later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song " Nel blu dipinto di blu", for which he received Grammy A ...
as Lawyer Rocco Santoro
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1953 films
1953 drama films
Films scored by Nino Rota
Italian drama films
1950s Italian-language films
Italian black-and-white films
Films directed by Luigi Zampa
Films produced by Carlo Ponti
Films produced by Dino De Laurentiis
Films set in Sicily
Films set in Rome
1950s Italian films
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