"Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome."
Sophia Loren
as Antonietta Taberi
Marcello Mastroianni
as Gabriele
John Vernon
as Emanuele Taberi
Françoise Berd
as Concierge
Patrizia Basso
as Romana Taberi
Tiziano De Persio
as Arnaldo Taberi
Maurizio Di Paolantonio
as Fabio Taberi
Antonio Garibaldi
as Littorio Taberi
Vittorio Guerrieri
as Umberto Taberi
Alessandra Mussolini
as Maria Luisa Taberi
Nicole Magny
as Officer's Daughter
Galeazzo Ciano
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
Benito Mussolini
Ettore Scola
Director
Armando Trovajoli
Original Music Composer
Carlo Ponti
Producer
Giorgio Scotton
Production Manager
Story
Ruggero Maccari
Screenplay
Ilde Muscio
Script Supervisor
Ezio Di Monte
Assistant Production Design
Vivien Boden
Production Secretary
Idelmo Simonelli
Camera Operator
Marcello Mastrogirolamo
Assistant Camera
Silvio Ferri
First Assistant Director
Maurizio Anticoli
Unit Manager
Pina Triunveri
Assistant Editor
Carlo Palmieri
Sound
Giovanni Viti
Assistant Costume Designer
Luciano Anzellotti
Foley Artist
Aldo Colanzi
Key Grip
Gianfranco Lelj
Still Photographer
Paola Scola
Luciano Leoni
Gaffer
Graziella Di Giovanni
Berta Betti
Seamstress
Maurizio Costanzo
Sergio Bologna
Administration
Giuseppina Delli Carpini
Pasqualino De Santis
Director of Photography
Alvaro Orsini
Boom Operator
Franco Freda
Makeup Artist
Franco Bassi
Sound Mixer
Raimondo Crociani
Editor
Enrico Sabbatini
Costume Design
Ada Palombi
Hairstylist
Luciano Ricceri
Production Design
Cesare D'Amico
Dialogue Editor