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)