---
title: 'A Special Day (1977)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ettore Scola'
released: '1977-08-12'
runtime_minutes: 105
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Italy'
  - 'Canada'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-special-day-1977'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076085/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# A Special Day (1977)

1977 · 105 min · Drama · Italy, Canada

Original title: Una giornata particolare

## Synopsis

A Special Day is a 1977 period drama film directed and co-written by Ettore Scola, produced by Carlo Ponti, and starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Set in Rome in 1938, its narrative follows a housewife (Loren) and her neighbor (Mastroianni) who stay home the day Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ettore Scola](https://cinepixo.com/people/ettore-scola)
- **Screenplay:** [Ettore Scola](https://cinepixo.com/people/ettore-scola), [Ruggero Maccari](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruggero-maccari), [Maurizio Costanzo](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurizio-costanzo), [Claude Fournier](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-fournier)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Armando Trovajoli](https://cinepixo.com/people/armando-trovajoli)
- **Producer:** [Carlo Ponti](https://cinepixo.com/people/carlo-ponti), [Richard Hellman](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-hellman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Pasqualino De Santis](https://cinepixo.com/people/pasqualino-de-santis)
- **Editor:** [Raimondo Crociani](https://cinepixo.com/people/raimondo-crociani)

## Cast

- [Adolf Hitler](https://cinepixo.com/people/adolf-hitler)
- [Alessandra Mussolini](https://cinepixo.com/people/alessandra-mussolini)
- [John Vernon](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-vernon)
- [Marcello Mastroianni](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcello-mastroianni)
- [Sophia Loren](https://cinepixo.com/people/sophia-loren)
- [Françoise Berd](https://cinepixo.com/people/francoise-berd)
- [Vittorio Guerrieri](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-guerrieri)
- [Benito Mussolini](https://cinepixo.com/people/benito-mussolini)

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