A Difficult Life

A Difficult Life
(Una vita difficile)
Directed byDino Risi
Written byRodolfo Sonego
Produced byDino De Laurentiis
StarringAlberto Sordi
Lea Massari
Franco Fabrizi
Claudio Gora
CinematographyLeonida Barboni
Music byCarlo Savina
Release date
  • 19 December 1961 (1961-12-19)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Box office$71,257 (2023 re-release)[1]

A Difficult Life (Italian: Una vita difficile) is a Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy film directed by Dino Risi in 1961. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[2]

  1. ^ "A Difficult Life". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.