We the Living (film)

We the Living
Original film poster
Directed by	Goffredo Alessandrini
Screenplay by	Corrado Alvaro Orio Vergani Anton Giulio Majano Goffredo Alessandrini Oreste Biancoli
Based on	We the Living by Ayn Rand
Starring	Alida Valli Rossano Brazzi Fosco Giachetti
Cinematography	Giuseppe Caracciolo
Edited by	Eraldo Da Roma
Music by	Renzo Rossellini
Production company	Scalera Film
Release date	14 September 1942 (1942-09-14) (Italy)
Running time	172 minutes (re-release)
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

We the Living is a two-part 1942 Italian romantic war drama film, based on Ayn Rand's 1936 novel of the same name. It was originally released as two films, Noi vivi (literally "We the living") and Addio Kira ("Goodbye Kira"). It was directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and produced by Scalera Film, and stars Alida Valli as Kira Argounova, Rossano Brazzi as Leo Kovalensky, and Fosco Giachetti as Andrei Taganov.

The nominally anti-communist, but de facto anti-authoritarian film was made and released in Italy during World War II, before being banned by the Fascist government and pulled from theaters. The film was lost and forgotten for decades, then found and restored with Rand's involvement. It was released for the first time in the United States in 1986.^[1]