To Live in Peace

1947 film

11 September 1947 (1947-09-11)

Running time

90 minutesCountryItalyLanguageItalianBox office126 million lira^[1]

To Live in Peace (Italian: Vivere in pace) is a 1947 Italian neorealist comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Aldo Fabrizi, John Kitzmiller and Ave Ninchi.^[2]^[3]

It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location around Orvieto in Umbria. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ivo Battelli.

Cast

Aldo Fabrizi as Tigna
Gar Moore as Ronald
Mirella Monti as Silvia
John Kitzmiller as Joe
Heinrich Bode as Hans
Ave Ninchi as Corinna
Ernesto Almirante as Il Nonno
Nando Bruno as Il Segretario Politico
Aldo Silvani as Il Medico
Gino Cavalieri as Il Parroco
Piero Palermini as Franco
Franco Serpilli as Citto

Awards and nominations

OCIC-Prize at The World Film and Fine Arts Festival in Brussels, 1947: OCIC jury verdict : This film is amongst the films presented most able to contribute to the spiritual and moral revival of humanity. This first jury of the International Catholic Office of Cinema (OCIC) consisted out of the Jesuit Fr Charles Reinert (Switzerland), the Dominican Fr Léo Lunders O.P. (Belgium), Diego Fabbri (Italy), Luis de Zulueta (Spain), André Ruszkowski (France) and Roger Stengel (Belgium)

References

^ Chiti & Poppi p.405
^ Ben-Ghia p.297
^ Gundle p.138

Bibliography

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema. Indiana University Press, 2015.
Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
Gundle, Stephen. Fame Amid the Ruins: Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism. Berghahn Books, 2019.

External links

To Live in Peace at IMDb
To Live in Peace at AllMovie

Films directed by Luigi Zampa

L'attore scomparso (1940)
C'è sempre un ma! (1942)
The Adventures of Fra Diavolo (1942)
Signorinette (1942)
L'abito nero da sposa (1945)
A Yank in Rome (1946)
To Live in Peace (1947)
Angelina (1947)
Difficult Years (1948)
Alarm Bells (1949)
Children of Chance (1949)
The White Line (1950)
Rome-Paris-Rome (1951)
His Last Twelve Hours (1951)
The City Stands Trial (1952)
We, the Women (1953)
Easy Years (1953)
Of Life and Love (1954)
Woman of Rome (1954)
The Art of Getting Along (1955)
Girls of Today (1955)
Ladro lui, ladra lei (1958)
The Love Specialist (1958)
The Magistrate (1959)
The Traffic Policeman (1960)
Roaring Years (1962)
Shivers in Summer (1963)
A Question of Honour (1965)
I nostri mariti (1966)
Be Sick... It's Free (1968)
Anyone Can Play (1968)
Let's Have a Riot (1970)
A Girl in Australia (1971)
Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973)
The Flower in His Mouth (1975)
Il mostro (1977)
Tigers in Lipstick (1979)

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1937–1977	Mayerling (1937) Grand Illusion (1938) Harvest (1939) The Baker's Wife (1940) No Award (1941–1945) Rome, Open City (1946) To Live in Peace (1947) Paisan (1948) Bicycle Thieves (1949) L'Amore (1950) Miracle in Milan (1951) Forbidden Games (1952) Justice Is Done (1953) Gate of Hell (1954) Umberto D. (1955) The Road (1956) Gervaise (1957) My Uncle (1958) The 400 Blows (1959) Hiroshima My Love (1960) The Sweet Life (1961) No Award (1962) 8½ (1963) That Man from Rio (1964) Juliet of the Spirits (1965) The Shop on Main Street (1966) The War Is Over (1967) War and Peace (1968) No Award (1969–1977)
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