Four Steps in the Clouds

+ intro by season curator Giulia Saccogna

Quattro passi fra le nuvole

A rural interlude for a city employee turns into an idyllic interruption to the monotony of his life, in one of the first films to display neorealist traits.

  • Director

    Alessandro Blasetti

  • With

    Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti, Aldo Silvani, Giuditta Rissone

  • Italy 1942. 91min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

An ordinary travelling salesman, frustrated by his dull family life, meets a young and pregnant woman on a train. At her request, he pretends to be her husband for a day. Blasetti began his career by making historical films, but this bittersweet comedy marks a fresh break from his previous work, lending a popular comedy genre a quiet melancholy. For the first time a neorealist impulse emerges.

35mm courtesy of Cinecittà.

Joint ticket available with Journey Through Italian Neorealism on Tuesday 7 May £16, concessions £13 (Members pay £2 less).

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