You might expect this film to be another comedic romp with Toto' in the lead. I didn't find that much humor in it actually. It was much more of a critique of the mean-spiritedness (meschinita') that had gripped much of Italy in the post-war period leading up to the "boom". Not one single likable character apart from Toto' himself, and all of them absorbed in their petty maneuverings. The highlight of the baseness of the characters was, of course, the revelation that some had taken advantage of the round-up of Roman Jews in 1944 to grab their property--and then 10 years later refused to surrender it to the survivors.
Review of Where Is Freedom?
