Dear Michele

Dear Michele

1976 · 108 min · ★ 5.4 · Comedy, Drama

Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.

Directed by Mario Monicelli · Written by Suso Cecchi d'Amico

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Mariangela Melato Mara Castorelli
Delphine Seyrig Adriana Vivanti
Lou Castel Osvaldo
Aurore Clément Angelica Vivanti
Fabio Carpi Fabio Colarosa
Marcella Michelangeli Viola Vivanti
Isa Danieli Livia
Alfonso Gatto Padre Vivanti
Eriprando Visconti Filippo
Renato Romano Oreste
Adriana Innocenti Matilde
Costantino Carrozza marito di Livia

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