We All Loved Each Other So Much

We All Loved Each Other So Much is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Ettore Scola, who co-wrote the screenplay with screenwriting duo Age & Scarpelli. It stars Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli and Aldo Fabrizi. Widely considered one of the best films by Scola, and a notable example of the commedia all'italiana, it was dedicated to Italian director Vittorio De Sica. 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." Plot Gianni, Antonio and Nicola are resistance fighters (La Resistenza) during the war, sharing everything like brothers. After the war, they return to their lives. Antonio becomes a nurse in a Roman hospital and falls in love with a girl named Luciana. He also belongs to the Popular Front. Gianni becomes an assistant in a law firm, the head of which, La Rosa, is running as a deputy candidate for the Socialist Party. Nicola returns to teaching in a small town high school, marries a woman named Gabriella and has a child, Tommasino. He is an idealist, an active member of the Communist Party and a film buff. Three years after the war, Antonio is lunching with Luciana at a restaurant when Gianni happens to pass by. Antonio is thrilled and starts talking about their days in La Resistenza. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to him, Luciana and Gianni silently fall in love with each other.