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Open Letter to the Evening News is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Francesco Maselli with Nanni Loy
Open Letter to the Evening News (1970)
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Add to a movie listLettera aperta a un giornale della sera (internationally released as Open Letter to an Evening Daily and Open Letter to an Evening Newspaper) is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Francesco Maselli. It is centered upon the crisis of the Communist intellectuals after the 1968 protests.
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Des intellectuels de gauche (un architecte, un directeur de rédaction, un écrivain, un scénariste, un sculpteur, un directeur et un professeur d'université), s'ennuyant dans leur routine quotidienne, décident, pour se distraire, de fonder une brigade internationale de combattants pour le Viêt Nam et annoncent leur dessein dans une lettre ouverte qui est malencontreusement publiée par un journal. Ils se voient donc contraints de partir au Viêt Nam.Actors
Nanni Loy
(Dosi)
Silverio Blasi
Lorenza Guerrieri
(Lorenza)
Monica Strebel
(Monica)
Daniela Surina
(Countess Surina)
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