| Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | |
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original movie poster |
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| Directed by | Vittorio De Sica |
| Produced by | Carlo Ponti Joseph E. Levine |
| Written by | Billa Billa Eduardo De Filippo Alberto Moravia Isabella Quarantotti Cesare Zavattini |
| Starring | Sophia Loren Marcello Mastroianni |
| Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| Editing by | Adriana Novelli |
| Distributed by | Embassy Pictures Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 19 December 1963 |
| Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| Box office | $10 million (USA) |
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Italian: Ieri, oggi, domani) is a 1963 comedy anthology film by Italian director Vittorio de Sica.[1] It stars Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. The film consists of three short stories about couples in different parts of Italy. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards.[2]
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Set in the poorer Naples of 1953, Adelina (Loren) supports her unemployed husband Carmine (Mastroianni) and child by selling black market cigarettes. When she doesn't pay a fine, her furniture is to be repossessed. However her neighbors assist her by hiding the furniture. A lawyer who lives in the neighborhood advises Carmine that as the fine and furniture is in Adelina's name, she will be imprisoned. However, Italian law stipulates that pregnant women cannot be imprisoned or within six months after a pregnancy. As a result Adelina schemes to purposely stay pregnant. After seven children, Carmine is seriously exhausted and Adelina must make the choice of being impregnated by their mutual friend Pasquale (Aldo Giuffrè) or be incarcerated.
Anna (Loren dressed by Christian Dior) is the wife of a megarich industrialist who has a lover named Renzo (Mastroianni). Whilst driving together in her husband's Rolls Royce, Anna must determine which is the most important to her happiness - Renzo or the Rolls. Renzo rethinks his infatuation with Anna when she expresses no concern when they nearly run over a child.
Mara (Loren) works as a prostitute from her apartment, servicing a variety of high class clients including Augusto (Mastroianni), the wealthy, powerful and neurotic son of a Bologna industrialist.
Mara's elderly neighbour's grandson visiting them is a handsome and callow young man studying for the priesthood but not yet ordained who falls in love with Mara. To the shrieking dismay of his grandmother, the young man wishes to leave the clergy to be with Mara or to join the French Foreign Legion if Mara rejects him. Mara vows to set the young man on the path of righteousness back to the seminary and enlists the reluctant Augusto. Mara provides a strip tease at the climax of the film.
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| Preceded by 8½ |
Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film 1964 |
Succeeded by The Shop on Main Street |
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