Movie Drama
Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the middle class.
Vittorio Gassman Ugo Tognazzi Jean-Louis Trintignant Marcello Mastroianni Stefania Sandrelli Carla Gravina Ombretta Colli Galeazzo Benti Milena Vukotić Stefano Satta Flores Serge Reggiani Agenore Incrocci Leonardo Benvenuti Ugo Gregoretti Lucio Lombardo Radice Francesco Maselli Mino Monicelli Claudio Sestieri Lucio Villari Helena Ronee Marie Trintignant Venantino Venantini Ritza Brown Olimpia Carlisi Simonetta Del Frate Graziella Galvani Fabio Garriba Margherita Horowitz Elisa Mainardi Maurizio Micheli Remo Remotti Fausto Schermi Marie Claire Solleville Gheorghieva Danon Zora Amerigo Alberani Elena Fabrizi Carlo Cataneo Giuseppe Marrocco Angiolina Quinterno Irina Sanpiter Rossana Canghiari
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