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A Difficult Life

1961 · 118 min · Director: Dino Risi ★ IMDb 8 · 2,608 ratings

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Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

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A Difficult Life (1961) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Humor 30%, Empathy 25%, Sadness 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

30%Humor
  1. Humor30%
  2. Hope10%

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The strongest emotional signals are Humor, Empathy, Sadness. Genres: Comedy, Drama. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Humor, Empathy and Sadness. Its IMDb rating of 8.0/10 suggests a strong audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 72/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Sympathy
  • Tension
  • Sadness

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Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Hope

Dominant emotion: Humor

Dominant emotion: Sympathy

Dominant emotion: Sadness

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Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity peaks around 3 %, then dips around 13 %, then dips around 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensitySympathyTensionSadness
2.5 %≈ 3′Tension68 %35 %67 %7 %
7.5 %≈ 9′Tension60 %32 %54 %10 %
12.5 %≈ 15′Hope49 %30 %38 %15 %
17.5 %≈ 21′Humor50 %29 %30 %15 %
22.5 %≈ 27′Hope56 %24 %24 %9 %
27.5 %≈ 32′Hope56 %18 %24 %6 %
32.5 %≈ 38′Humor55 %16 %34 %8 %
37.5 %≈ 44′Tension56 %30 %43 %16 %
42.5 %≈ 50′Sympathy59 %50 %43 %33 %
47.5 %≈ 56′Sympathy59 %51 %41 %32 %
52.5 %≈ 62′Tension56 %44 %43 %25 %
57.5 %≈ 68′Sympathy60 %50 %46 %38 %
62.5 %≈ 74′Sadness65 %55 %48 %48 %
67.5 %≈ 80′Humor61 %51 %39 %41 %
72.5 %≈ 86′Sympathy56 %51 %36 %40 %
77.5 %≈ 91′Sympathy59 %54 %49 %46 %
82.5 %≈ 97′Sadness65 %56 %51 %54 %
87.5 %≈ 103′Sadness63 %51 %39 %48 %
92.5 %≈ 109′Sympathy54 %36 %33 %26 %
97.5 %≈ 115′Hope48 %23 %28 %12 %
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Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

Franco Fabrizi

Franco Simonini

LV
Lina Volonghi

CG
Claudio Gora

le commandeur Bracci

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Antonio Centa

LC
Loredana Cappelletti

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Borante Domizlaff

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Alessandro Blasetti

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Edith Peters

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Valeria Manganelli

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Paolino Vanni

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Bruna Perego

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Alfonsina Cetti

Details

Directed by
Dino Risi
Written by
Rodolfo Sonego
Type
Movies
Released
1961
Runtime
118 min
Country
Italy
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Ratings
★ IMDb 8 · 2,608 ratings
Feels mostly
Humor
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