Four Steps in the Clouds

Four Steps in the Clouds
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlessandro Blasetti
Written byGiuseppe Amato
Alessandro Blasetti
Aldo De Benedetti
Piero Tellini
Cesare Zavattini
Produced byGiuseppe Amato
StarringGino Cervi
Adriana Benetti
CinematographyVáclav Vích
Music byAlessandro Cicognini
Production
company
Distributed byENIC
Release date
  • 23 December 1942 (1942-12-23)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Four Steps in the Clouds (Italian: Quattro passi fra le nuvole) is a 1942 Italian comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Gino Cervi and Adriana Benetti. It tells the story of a married man who agrees to act as the husband of a young pregnant woman who has been abandoned by her boyfriend. Aesthetically, it is close to Italian neorealism. It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi.

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."[1]

It was nominated for BAFTA as Best Film from any Source. The movie was remade several times, including The Virtuous Bigamist in 1956 and as A Walk in the Clouds in 1995.

  1. ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.