The Way We Laughed

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The Way We Laughed

Directed by	Gianni Amelio
Written by	Gianni Amelio Daniele Gaglianone Lillo Iacolino Alberto Taraglio
Starring	Enrico Lo Verso Francesco Giuffrida
Cinematography	Luca Bigazzi
Music by	Franco Piersanti
Distributed by	Cecchi Gori Group (Italy) Summit Entertainment (International)
Release dates	10 September 1998 (1998-09-10) (Venice) 2 October 1998 (1998-10-02) (Italy) 21 November 2001 (2001-11-21) (U.S.)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Way We Laughed (Italian: Così ridevano) is a 1998 Italian drama film directed by Gianni Amelio. It tells the story of two Sicilian brothers, Giovanni and Pietro, who emigrate to the city of Turin. Giovanni works hard to help Pietro study to be a teacher, but Pietro does poorly. Then Pietro disappears.

The film won the Golden Lion at the 55th Venice International Film Festival.

Cast

Enrico Lo Verso as Giovanni
Fabrizio Gifuni as Pelaia
Francesco Giuffrida as Pietro
Rosaria Danzè as Lucia
Renato Liprandi as the professor
Paolo Sena as Prof.Rosini

External links

The Way We Laughed at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Gianni Amelio
The Little Archimedes (1979, TV) Blow to the Heart (1982) I ragazzi di via Panisperna (1987) Open Doors (1989) The Stolen Children (1992) Lamerica (1994) The Way We Laughed (1998) The Keys to the House (2004) The Missing Star (2006) The First Man (2011) L'intrepido (2013) Tenderness (2017) Hammamet (2020) Lord of the Ants (2022) Battlefield (2024)

v t e Venice Film Festival Golden Lion
1946–1968	The Southerner (1946) The Strike (1947) Hamlet (1948) Manon (1949) Justice Is Done (1950) Rashomon (1951) Forbidden Games (1952) Romeo and Juliet (1954) Ordet (1955) Aparajito (1957) Rickshaw Man (1958) General Della Rovere (1959) The Great War (1959) Tomorrow Is My Turn (1960) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Family Diary (1962) Ivan's Childhood (1962) Hands over the City (1963) Red Desert (1964) Sandra (1965) The Battle of Algiers (1966) Belle de Jour (1967) Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
1980–2000	Atlantic City (1980) Gloria (1980) Marianne and Juliane (1981) The State of Things (1982) First Name: Carmen (1983) A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984) Vagabond (1985) The Green Ray (1986) Au revoir les enfants (1987) The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) A City of Sadness (1989) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Close to Eden (1991) The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) Short Cuts (1993) Three Colours: Blue (1993) Before the Rain (1994) Vive L'Amour (1994) Cyclo (1995) Michael Collins (1996) Hana-bi (1997) The Way We Laughed (1998) Not One Less (1999) The Circle (2000)
2001–present	Monsoon Wedding (2001) The Magdalene Sisters (2002) The Return (2003) Vera Drake (2004) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Still Life (2006) Lust, Caution (2007) The Wrestler (2008) Lebanon (2009) Somewhere (2010) Faust (2011) Pietà (2012) Sacro GRA (2013) A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) From Afar (2015) The Woman Who Left (2016) The Shape of Water (2017) Roma (2018) Joker (2019) Nomadland (2020) Happening (2021) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) Poor Things (2023) The Room Next Door (2024)

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