FAMILY PORTRAIT

Original 19 1/2 inch x 27 1/2 inch Poster for the 1962 Valerio Zurlini Drama FAMILY PORTRAIT (CRONACA FAMILIARE), based on the novel by Vasco Pratolini and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Perrin, Sylvie, Salvo Randone, Valeria Ciangottini, Marco Guglielmi and Serena Vergano.

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother’s keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.

The poster is in fine folded condition.