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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Life Begins Anew<br />
| image = Life Begins Anew.jpg<br />
| caption = Film poster<br />
| director = [[Mario Mattoli]]<br />
| producer = [[Baldassarre Negroni]]<br />
| writer = [[Aldo De Benedetti]]<br>[[Mario Mattoli]]<br />
| narrator =<br />
| starring = [[Alida Valli]]<br>[[Fosco Giachetti]]<br>[[Eduardo De Filippo]]<br>[[Carlo Romano]]<br />
| music = [[Ezio Carabella]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Ubaldo Arata]]<br />
| editing = [[Fernando Tropea]]<br />
| studio = Excelsa Film<br />
| distributor = [[Minerva Film]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|1945|09|21|df=y}}<br />
| runtime = 84 minutes<br />
| country = Italy<br />
| language = Italian<br />
}}<br />
'''''Life Begins Anew''''' ({{lang-it|'''La vita ricomincia'''}}) is a 1945 Italian [[melodrama film]] directed by [[Mario Mattoli]] and starring [[Alida Valli]], [[Fosco Giachetti]] and [[Eduardo De Filippo]]. It was the second most popular Italian film during 1945-46 after [[Roberto Rossellini]]'s ''[[Rome, Open City]]''.<ref>Bayman p.96</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
Paolo Martini, a doctor of chemistry and Italian veteran returns home to Rome after spending some time in a British [[Prisoner of War camp]] during the [[Second World War]]. After returning to find his son, Sandro, grown some years. He finds his wife, Patrizia, had some difficulty during his 6 years away. He also meets the Professor, their new next-door neighbor who lost his wife and daughter in the bombings of Napoli.<br />
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After readjusting to his new life at home, Paolo is frightened when Patrizia suddenly disappears. After searching through Rome with the Professor, he finally finds her in custody at the police station. She has been accused of murdering a man.<br />
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Patrizia admits to Paolo that during the desperate war years, she prostituted herself to pay for medicine to keep Sandro alive. Paolo is at first outraged and pushes her away. He even tried to confess to the murder to spare Patrizia, despite the advice of the investigator not to. Patrizia is eventually acquitted of the murder, but Paolo admits to wanting to leave her. The Professor's speech to Paolo at the end of the film convinces Paolo to stay and try to restart his life anew with Sandro and Patrizia.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Alida Valli]] as Patrizia Martini<br />
* [[Fosco Giachetti]] as Paolo Martini<br />
* [[Eduardo De Filippo]] as Il professore<br />
* [[Carlo Romano]] as Croci<br />
* [[Aldo Silvani]] as Il giudice istruttore<br />
* [[Nando Bruno]] as Scorcelletti, il camionista<br />
* Anna Haardt as La baroness Magda Huberth<br />
* [[Maria Donati]] as Maria<br />
* [[Ughetto Bertucci]] as Righetto<br />
* Maurizio Ceselli as Sandrino Martini, figlio di Patrizia e Paolo<br />
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==Production==<br />
The film was shot [[location shooting|on location]] in war-damaged [[Naples]]. This was not because the director Mattoli wished to follow [[Italian neorealism|neorealist]] style, which he largely rejected.<ref>Gundle p.272</ref> Interior scenes were shot at the [[Palatino Studios]] in [[Rome]]. The film was important in Giachetti's transition from one of the leading stars of the [[Fascist era]] into a figure acceptable to post-war audiences. This was partly achieved through retaining his previously strongly [[masculine]] persona which was adapted to the new conditions. Alida Valli, also a celebrated Fascist period star, received a boost from the film and went to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] the following year.<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* Bayman, Louis (ed.) ''Directory of World Cinema: Italy''. Intellect Books, 2011. <br />
* Gundle, Stephen. ''Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy''. Berghahn Books, 2013.<br />
* Hipkins, Danielle & Plain, Gill (eds.) ''War-torn Tales: Literature, Film and Gender in the Aftermath of World War II''. Peter Lang, 2007.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|id=0038225|title=Life Begins Anew}}<br />
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{{Mario Mattoli}}<br />
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[[Category:Films directed by Mario Mattoli]]<br />
[[Category:Battle of Monte Cassino]]<br />
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[[Category:Melodrama films]]<br />
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