La vita semplice (1946) Online

Credited cast:
	Luciano De Ambrosis	-	Mao
	Giulio Stival	-	Giulio Caldri
	Anna Bianchi	-	Migia
	Maurizio D'Ancora	-	Toto Bressan
	Gino Cavalieri	-	Marco Bressan
	Guido Zago	-	Bepi
	Egisto Olivieri	-	Il professore
	Mario Sailer	-	Andrea
	Renato Malavasi	-	Egisto
	Anna Mancini	-	Bianca (as Anna Maria Mancini)
	Angelo Dessy	-	L'autista del motoscafo
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Carlo Micheluzzi
	Giuseppe Zago

The movie was the second film to be shot in Venice during what is known as the Republic of Salò (when Mussolini was deposed and the country occupied by the Germans) and when all cinematic activity was transferred north, as Italy's main studio facilities (Cinecittà) were situated in Rome, which was occupied. It is very difficult nowadays to find any information about any of the films produced during the Republic of Salò and it is virtually impossible to find any prints at all. Most of the documentation available about Italian cinema also seems to exclude these films on purpose; most critics even dismiss the fact that any cinematic activity even took place in Venice during the last years of the war. It is clear that this particularly difficult period has always been looked at from a political point of view and the result is that political debates over the years have simply erased over twenty films. It is probably true that most of the personnel who worked in Venice in 1944-45 were fascist sympathizers but some others just wanted to resume their career in films despite the political upheavals. Whatever the case may be, no other details other than the ones already displayed, are now available about the film.

The movie was shot in Venice during what is known in History as the Republic of Salò (when Mussolini was deposed and the country occupied by the Germans) and when all cinematic activity was transferred north, as Italy's main studio facilities (Cinecittà) were situated in Rome, which was occupied. It is very difficult nowadays to find any information about any of the films produced during the Republic of Salò and it is virtually impossible to find any prints at all. Most of the documentation available about Italian cinema also seems to exclude these films on purpose; most critics even dismiss the fact that any cinematic activity even took place in Venice during the last years of the war. It is clear that this particularly difficult period has always been looked at from a political point of view and the result is that political debates over the years have simply erased over twenty films. It is probably true that most of the personnel who worked in Venice in 1944-45 were fascist sympathizers but some others just wanted to resume their career in films despite the political upheavals. Whatever the case may be, no other details other than the ones already displayed, are now available about the film.

Unlike most films produced in Italy in 1944-45 during the Republic of Salò, this movie was more or less distributed normally. It was released in 1946.