Eager to Live
Film poster
Directed byClaudio Gora
Written bySuso Cecchi d'Amico
Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Claudio Gora
Lamberto Santilli
Leopoldo Trieste
Produced byAldo Pacitto
StarringMassimo Serato
CinematographyEnzo Serafin
Oberdan Troiani
Edited byMariano Arditi
Music byValentino Bucchi
Release date
  • 1953 (1953)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Eager to Live (Italian: Febbre di vivere) is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Claudio Gora.[1] In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[2]

Plot

Massimo lives in luxury, but in reality he is overwhelmed by debts and is tight in the shady business of the racing hall that he manages. To support his illusory rich life, he is forced to turn to usurers. He spends his days with a group of other snobbish and idle young people. Her partner Elena loves her, but he has no qualms about betraying her. His friend Daniele is released from prison, where he ended up despite being innocent, and discovers that Massimo, in order to pocket a derisory sum, had bribed the lawyer who defended Daniele and plotted so that his friend was sentenced. Elena is pregnant and a scam, discovered in her racing room, creates new problems for Massimo.

To silence Daniele, Massimo arranges a meeting with Lucia, her ex-girlfriend, but the girl no longer wants to know about that old love. To get out of Elena's pressures, Massimo convinces a young friend, Sandro, to take responsibility for Elena's pregnancy and to ask his parents for help. In this way he obtains that the girl is entrusted to an unscrupulous doctor who agrees to have her aborted. When Sandro discovers that he has been used and rebels, a fight breaks out and he dies hit by Massimo. To give the impression of a suicide, Massimo throws the body out of the window, at this point Lucia, even though she is in love with him, denounces him and has him arrested. Meanwhile, Elena escapes the clutches of the doctor and decides to continue the pregnancy, while Daniele is not resigned to her, he confesses to Lucia that he still loves her and that he will know how to wait for her.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "NY Times: Eager to Live". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 11 March 2021.


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