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We the Living is a two-part 1942 Italian romantic war drama film, based on Ayn Rand's 1936 novel of the same name. It was originally released as two films, Noi vivi (literally "We Live") and Addio Kira ("Goodbye Kira").
With Fosco Giachetti, Alida Valli, Rossano Brazzi, Giovanni Grasso. The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear - the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the grublike fat of the appeasers and oppressors.
When a Soviet secret police agent also falls in love with Kira, the lives of all three intertwine and spiral toward disaster. An epic story of the unconquerable in the human spirit, We the Living is at its core a blazing declaration of the right of every human being to live free.
It was directed by Goffredo Allesandrini. The extras were mostly Russians living in exile in Rome. Suppressed. During the filming, Italy’s Fascist Ministry of Culture made several efforts to force the removal of scenes that they perceived as dangerous and anti-Fascist. But the film editors restored the scenes just before the film’s opening.
18 de feb. de 2022 · "We the Living" is the 1942 film classic based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Ayn Rand. It stars Rossano Brazzi ("South Pacific") and Alida Valli ("Th...
We the Living is the debut novel of the Russian American novelist Ayn Rand. It is a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia and was Rand's first statement against communism. Rand observes in the foreword that We the Living was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography.
Doomed love within a corrupt political world. At 18, the beautiful and smart Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political...
