We All Loved Each Other So Much

Three Italian partisans and close friends return home after the Second World War and find that peacetime pulls them in different directions. Antonio goes back to work as a hospital orderly in Rome, Nicola leaves for a teaching post in the provinces, and Gianni takes up a traineeship with a prominent lawyer. The woman they all come to love, Luciana, becomes a point of tension between them, and the political and social changes sweeping Italy over the following decades test the bond the men forged during the Resistance.

Ettore Scola directed and co-wrote the film with the screenwriting team of Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli. It was the first feature in Scola's directing career to win wide attention abroad, arriving before such later works as Ugly, Dirty and Bad, A Special Day and The Family. Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman and Stefano Satta Flores play the three friends, with Stefania Sandrelli as Luciana, Giovanna Ralli as Elide and Aldo Fabrizi as Romolo Catenacci among a credited cast of thirty-four.

The film is a comedy-drama set against the transformation of postwar Italy. Audiences have received it warmly over the years: it holds a rating of 8 out of 10 on IMDb from around 8,700 votes and 8.3 out of 10 on TMDB from roughly 667 votes.