Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) on Netflix
Adelina sells contraband cigarettes in Naples; a fine threatens her with jail while her husband Carmine is jobless. In Milan Anna drives with Renzo; in Rome Mara befriends Umberto, a seminarian.
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Plot summary
In Naples, Adelina keeps her family going by selling black market cigarettes while her husband Carmine is out of work. A fine on furniture registered in her name threatens her with prison, and a lawyer points out that Italian law forbids jailing a woman who is pregnant or has recently given birth. Adelina and Carmine therefore plan to keep her pregnant. In Milan, Anna, who feels neglected by her businessman husband, takes her lover Renzo, a writer, for a drive in her husband's Rolls-Royce and proposes they run away. In Rome, Mara, a prostitute working from a rooftop apartment, befriends Umberto, a young seminary student visiting his grandparents next door. She tells him she is a manicurist. His grandmother, who knows what Mara does, interrupts and threatens to have her evicted.
Cast
- Tonino Ciancias (segment "Adelina")
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The "Adelina" segment is based on the real Concetta Muccardi, a Neapolitan street vendor of contraband cigarettes who had 19 pregnancies to avoid going to prison. She died on 21 November 2001, aged 78, when five of her children were still alive.
- For the striptease in the "Mara" segment, Sophia Loren was coached by Jacques Ruet, the choreographer for the Crazy Horse cabaret.
- The title lived on: Sophia Loren's 2015 autobiography was published as Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: My Life, and a 2021 retrospective on De Sica in Gazzetta Italia was titled "Ieri, oggi, domani."
