本片是一部意大利剧情片，由迪诺·里西导演，由阿尔贝托·索尔迪/蕾雅·马萨利/Franco Fabrizi主演。
剧情简介：Silvio (Alberto Sordi) is an Italian partisan, he and his companions belong to Italian resistance movement fighting against the Nazis. They are at Lake Como. He is helped by Elena (Lea Massari). He spends three months hiding in Elena's grandfather's mill. They fall in love. Silvio is an idealist, communist, journalist writer. He goes back to war.
The film spans the story of Italy from 1944 to 1960, from the times of poverty in World War II to the birth of the Italian Republic, the elections and Silvio's ideals of the Italian Communist Party, his stay in jail, his disappointments, his crises with Elena, his attempts to get his works published and to sell his film scripts in Cinecittà to Alessandro Blasetti, Silvana Mangano and Vittorio Gassman (they appear as themselves).
外文名：Una vita difficile
别名：生活难 / A Difficult Life
类型：剧情 / 喜剧 / 战争
地区：意大利
导演：迪诺·里西
编剧：Rodolfo Sonego
演员：阿尔贝托·索尔迪 / 蕾雅·马萨利 / Franco Fabrizi
