Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Directed by	Lino Del Fra
Starring	Lea Massari
Cinematography	Gábor Pogány
Edited by	Silvano Agosti [it]
Music by	Egisto Macchi
Release date	1977
Language	Italian

Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere (internationally released as Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Lino Del Fra.^[1] It was awarded with the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.^[2]

Plot

Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist courts, relives the stages of his political career and private life: in particular the foundation of the Italian Communist Party, the useless resistance to the right-wing offensive, marriage, arrest, the conflict with Palmiro Togliatti. In prison, the politician is first considered a hero, then shunned because of his unconventional views on Stalin and the authoritarian involution of the USSR. Discharged from prison for health reasons, he died in 1937 in a clinic in Rome.

Cast

• Riccardo Cucciolla as Antonio Gramsci
• Lea Massari as Tania
• Mimsy Farmer as Giulia
• Jacques Herlin as Lo Santo
• Franco Graziosi as Dmitry Manuilsky
• Andrea Aureli as anarchist
• Umberto Raho as chaplain
• Luigi Pistilli as Gennaro Gramsci
• John Steiner as Laurin
• Biagio Pelligra as Bruno
• Paolo Bonacelli as Bocchini
• Antonio Piovanelli as Athos
• Luciano Bartoli as Worker in Turin
• Severino Saltarelli [it] as Giovanni Laj
• Rate Furlan as Director of the prison
• Gianfranco Bullo [it] as Palmiro Togliatti
• Pier Giovanni Anchisi [it] as Worker in Turin
• Pier Paolo Capponi as Enrico
• Claudio Carafoli [it] as Ercole
• Pier Luigi Giorgio as Giuseppe
• Gianni Pulone as Worker in Turin
• Pino Ammendola as
• Pietro Biondi as
• Sergio Gibello [it] as
• Antonio La Raina [it] as
• Fabrizio Miglione as
• Raymond Pellegrin as
• Bruno Rosa as
• Gino Usai as