Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
C. C. Champion, Canafox Films
A Special Day
A special film about two special people.
Genre:
Drama, Romance
Runtime:
106
Released:
1977
Rating:
8.041
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
Ruggero Maccari, Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola, Ettore Scola, Maurizio Costanzo
FILM OVERVIEW
A Special Day
Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler’s historic 1938 visit to Rome.
DIRECTOR
Ettore Scola
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Ettore Scola (Director)
Carlo Ponti (Producer)
Armando Trovajoli (Original Music Composer)
Giorgio Scotton (Production Manager)
Ruggero Maccari (Screenplay)
Ruggero Maccari (Story)
Ettore Scola (Story)
Ettore Scola (Screenplay)
Maurizio Costanzo (Screenplay)
Silvio Ferri (First Assistant Director)
CAST MEMBERS
Sophia Loren
Marcello Mastroianni
John Vernon
Françoise Berd
Patrizia Basso
Tiziano De Persio
Maurizio Di Paolantonio
Antonio Garibaldi
Vittorio Guerrieri
Alessandra Mussolini
MORE PRODUCTION
Maurizio Anticoli (Unit Manager), Vivien Boden (Production Secretary), Idelmo Simonelli (Camera Operator), Marcello Mastrogirolamo (Assistant Camera), Ilde Muscio (Script Supervisor), Paola Scola (Script Supervisor), Ezio Di Monte (Assistant Production Design), Giovanni Viti (Assistant Costume Designer), Carlo Palmieri (Sound), Sergio Bologna (Administration), Pina Triunveri (Assistant Editor), Graziella Di Giovanni (Assistant Editor), Luciano Leoni (Gaffer), Aldo Colanzi (Key Grip), Berta Betti (Seamstress), Giuseppina Delli Carpini (Seamstress), Gianfranco Lelj (Still Photographer), Luciano Anzellotti (Foley Artist), Pasqualino De Santis (Director of Photography), Raimondo Crociani (Editor), Luciano Ricceri (Production Design), Enrico Sabbatini (Costume Design), Franco Freda (Makeup Artist), Ada Palombi (Hairstylist), Franco Bassi (Sound Mixer), Cesare D’Amico (Dialogue Editor), Alvaro Orsini (Boom Operator)
MORE CAST
Nicole Magny, Galeazzo Ciano, Adolf Hitler, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Benito Mussolini
