Quattro passi fra le nuvole

Quattro passi fra le nuvole (Four Steps in the Clouds) is a Italian drama film from 1942, directed by Alessandro Blasetti. The film was a precursor to the Italian neo-realism, which really blossomed in 1943. The film was nominated for a BAFTA award in 1948 (category best film in the world), but then fell Laurence Olivier with his film Hamlet in the prices.The film was rewritten several times, as Sous le ciel de Provence in 1956, as A Walk in the Clouds in 1995 Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke and as in 2000. ==Story[ Edit] == The story is about a married agent for a candy manufacturer (played by Cervi). He leads a stable, maybe some boring family life in a large unnamed city in Northern Italy.

While traveling in a train for business purposes, he sees a young woman who is put off by the conductor. She has no ticket and cannot afford to buy one. The agent helps her. She asks if he still wants to do a favor for her. She has just abandoned by her boyfriend after they turned out to be pregnant and she is now on the way back to the family farm. They have no place else to go, but she is sure her father will not let her inside as soon as he realizes that they are unmarried. She is terrified and begs the agent to bring farm to go and pretend to be her husband. The deception takes only a few days, after which he can go back to his normal life and work and they then can claim to have been abandoned. The agent decides that taking a few days off a small price to pay for saving the girl and goes along with her from the train.

Arrived at the farm, the agent finds it difficult to maintain the lie, but in a passionate speech he convinces the girl's father to her at home. After which he goes back to his wife and family without saying anything. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==