We the Living, Part One (1942)
At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out.
Director: Goffredo Alessandrini
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Fosco Giachetti as Andrei Taganov |
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Alida Valli as Kira Argounova |
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Rossano Brazzi as Leo Kovalenski |
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Emilio Cigoli as Pavel Sjerov |
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Giovanni Grasso as Stephan Tishenko |
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Annibale Betrone as Vassili Dunaev |
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Elvira Betrone as Maria Petrovna Dunaev |
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Sennuccio Benelli as Saska |
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Cesarina Gheraldi as La Compagna Sonja |
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Silvia Manto as Mariska |
| Directing | Goffredo Alessandrini | Director |
| Writing | Ayn Rand | Novel |
| Writing | Corrado Alvaro | Writer |
| Writing | Orio Vergani | Writer |
| Writing | Anton Giulio Majano | Writer |
