Movie

Family Diary

★ 7/10 · 55 votes 1962 1h 48m Released

Drama

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni Enrico Jacques Perrin Lorenzo Mainardi Salvo Randone Salocchi Valeria Ciangottini Enzina Sylvie Grandmother Marco Guglielmi