--- title: 'A Difficult Life (1961)' type: 'film' director: 'Dino Risi' released: '1961-01-01' runtime_minutes: 115 genres: - 'Comedy' countries: - 'Italy' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-difficult-life-1961' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055602/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # A Difficult Life (1961) 1961 · 115 min · Comedy · Italy Original title: Una vita difficile ## Synopsis A Difficult Life is a Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy film directed by Dino Risi in 1961. 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." ## Credits - **Director:** [Dino Risi](https://cinepixo.com/people/dino-risi) - **Screenplay:** [Rodolfo Sonego](https://cinepixo.com/people/rodolfo-sonego) - **Original Music Composer:** [Carlo Savina](https://cinepixo.com/people/carlo-savina) - **Producer:** [Dino De Laurentiis](https://cinepixo.com/people/dino-de-laurentiis) - **Director of Photography:** [Leonida Barboni](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonida-barboni) ## Cast - [Alberto Sordi](https://cinepixo.com/people/alberto-sordi) - [Antonio Centa](https://cinepixo.com/people/antonio-centa) - [Claudio Gora](https://cinepixo.com/people/claudio-gora) - [Franco Fabrizi](https://cinepixo.com/people/franco-fabrizi) - [Franco Scandurra](https://cinepixo.com/people/franco-scandurra) - [Ennio Balbo](https://cinepixo.com/people/ennio-balbo) - [Silvana Mangano](https://cinepixo.com/people/silvana-mangano) - [Loredana Nusciak](https://cinepixo.com/people/loredana-nusciak) - [Vittorio Gassman](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-gassman) - [Lina Volonghi](https://cinepixo.com/people/lina-volonghi) - [Umberto Raho](https://cinepixo.com/people/umberto-raho) - [Renato Tagliani](https://cinepixo.com/people/renato-tagliani) - [Alessandro Blasetti](https://cinepixo.com/people/alessandro-blasetti) - [Mino Doro](https://cinepixo.com/people/mino-doro) - [Lea Massari](https://cinepixo.com/people/lea-massari) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-difficult-life-1961 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1169559); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.