(5 September 2017) The Italian Institute of Culture of Guatemala City pays homage to the great Italian cinema by offering the public the screening of the film "A Special Day" (1977) Ettore Scola's masterpiece starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in Italian with Spanish subtitles. The appointment is on Friday, September 8th (from 17.50 to 20:00) at the Cultural Centre "Miguel Ángel Asturias" in Guatemala City. "A special day" is a refined and emotional psychological drama that tells the story about an encounter between two lonely figures in the context of Hitler's ostentatious visit to Rome in 1938. He narrates the encounter of two difficult lives: Antonietta, mother of six children, married to a fervent Fascist clerical worker, and Gabriele, an unemployed EIAR radio worker (Italian public broadcaster service). Critics considered this film one of Scola's best works who was also the screenwriter written with Ruggero Maccari in collaboration with Maurizio Costanzo. Scola passed away in 2016 at the age of 84. He was one of the most important screenwriters and directors of Italian cinema. Other screenings of the famous movie are also scheduled on Tuesday, September 12th at 19:40, Thursday 21st at 17:50, and finally Wednesday 27th at 17:50. (Red)

THE PLOT

Hitler arrived in Rome on May 6th, 1938.  In a popular resort, Antonietta, the wife of an usher and mother of six children, prepares breakfast, wakes up the family, and helps to prepare for the parade. One morning, she inadvertently opens the cobbler's cage who flies away to a window sill in the apartment building across from her. She goes and knocks on their door and that is when Gabriele, a former EIAR broadcaster, who is preparing his suitcase to go to the border because he is a homosexual. While the radio continues to broadcast the encounter between Hitler and Mussolini, Antonietta and Gabriele reflect into each other.