Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere (internationally released as Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Lino Del Fra. It was awarded with the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.

Plot
Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist courts, relives the stages of his political career and private life: in particular the foundation of the Italian Communist Party, the useless resistance to the right-wing offensive, marriage, arrest, the conflict with Palmiro Togliatti. In prison, the politician is first considered a hero, then shunned because of his unconventional views on Stalin and the authoritarian involution of the USSR. Discharged from prison for health reasons, he died in 1937 in a clinic in Rome.

Cast

 * Riccardo Cucciolla as Antonio Gramsci
 * Lea Massari as Tania
 * Mimsy Farmer as Giulia
 * Jacques Herlin as Lo Santo
 * Franco Graziosi as Dmitry Manuilsky
 * Andrea Aureli as anarchist
 * Umberto Raho as chaplain
 * Luigi Pistilli as Gennaro Gramsci
 * John Steiner as Laurin
 * Biagio Pelligra as Bruno
 * Paolo Bonacelli as Bocchini
 * Antonio Piovanelli as Athos
 * Luciano Bartoli as Worker in Turin
 * Severino Saltarelli as Giovanni Laj
 * Rate Furlan as Director of the prison
 * Gianfranco Bullo as Palmiro Togliatti
 * Pier Giovanni Anchisi as Worker in Turin
 * Pier Paolo Capponi as Enrico
 * Claudio Carafoli as Ercole
 * Pier Luigi Giorgio as Giuseppe
 * Gianni Pulone as Worker in Turin
 * Pino Ammendola as
 * Pietro Biondi as
 * Sergio Gibello as
 * Antonio La Raina as
 * Fabrizio Miglione as
 * Raymond Pellegrin as
 * Bruno Rosa as
 * Gino Usai as