A Special Day Blu-ray

'A Special Day' Director: Ettore Scola (1977)  Staff Pick  | Italian w/ English subtitles | Includes interview with Sophia Loren, and an award-winning documentary on director Ettore Scola.

In two of the finest performances of their careers, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni play a conservative housewife and a liberal radio broadcaster who cross paths in a working-class apartment building on the day of Hitler's visit to Rome in 1938. Ettore Scola paints an exquisite portrait in muted sepia tones, a story of two individuals helpless in the face of Fascism's rise in Italy.