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In Italian with English subtitles.The film's title translates to 'Sunday in August'.Domenica D'Agosto was the first feature-length effort from Italian documentary filmmaker Luciano Emmer, and takes a nostalgic look at a typical midsummer Sunday at a Roman seaside resort in Ostia. As with most Italian neorealist films, a cast of professional actors mingles with carefully chosen nonprofessionals to illustrate a series of perceptive vignettes about big-city vacationers and Roman life at the time. Such is the consummate skill of the director and his screenwriters (including the ubiquitous Cesare Zavattini) that it's difficult for the audience to determine where the scripted scenes end and the "real" scenes begin. This is Mastroianni's first screen appearance of note, as a kind-hearted traffic cop.
