Name: Film in Italiano - Ieri,oggi,domani
Start: 2014-08-18T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2014-08-18T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Peacock Hall Theater

Film in Italiano – Ieri,oggi,domani

Monday, Aug. 18, 2014 - 7:00 PM

Rossmoor, Walnut Creek, CA

Press Release – Italian Clubs Film Series Presents leri, oggi, domani

The Italian-American Club and the Italian Conversation Group continue their Cinema in Italiano series with the film leri, oggi, domani (Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow) 1964 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film. The film will be shown on Monday, August 18, at 7 p.m. in Peacock Hall at Gateway.

The film will be in Italian with English subtitles, lasts two hours and is not rated. The film is free to Rossmoor residents and guests.

An original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio De Sice was the 1964 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film.

Set in the poorer Naples of 1953, Adelina supports her unemployed husband Carmine and child by selling black market cigarettes. When she does not pay a fine, she will be imprisoned. However, Italian law stipulates that women cannot be imprisoned when pregnant or within six months after a pregnancy. As a result, Adelina schemes to purposely stay pregnant. After seven children, Carmine is seriously exhausted.

Anna is the wife of a mega-rich industrialist who has a lover named Renzo. While driving together in her husband’s Rolls-Royce, Anna must determine which is the most important to her happiness—Renzo or the Rolls.

Mara works as a prostitute from her apartment, servicing a variety of high class clients including Augusto, the wealthy, powerful and neurotic son of a Bologna industrialist. Mara’s elderly neighbor’s grandson visiting them is a handsome and callow young man studying for the priesthood but not yet ordained and who falls in love with Mara. To the shrieking dismay of his grandmother, the young man wishes to leave the clergy to be with Mara or to join the French Foreign Legion if Mara rejects him. Mara vows to set the young man on the path of righteousness back to the seminary and enlists the reluctant Augusto. Mara provides a strip tease at the end of the film.

For additional information, links to trailers and reviews, visit our website www.ItalianAmericanClub.org/events. To be included in an e-mail distribution list that will link to the film’s trailers and to all others events of the Italian American Club of Rossmoor contact Joe Casalaina at JoeCasalaina@ItalianAmericanClub.org or 482-0919.