Alfredo is a grey employee in his fifties and has only one reason for his life: his old and ill mother. At the death of the woman, the man yields to discomfort. It will help him resume dating a young widow known at the cemetery.（Italian original here)

（Online translation) Alfredo è un grigio impiegato sulla cinquantina e ha una sola ragione di vita: la madre anziana e malata. Alla morte della donna, l'uomo cede allo sconforto. Lo aiuterà a riprendersi la frequentazione con una giovane vedova conosciuta al cimitero.

Falling in love at fifty is a film of remarkable sadness, but it is not the classic 'tear-throwing' betrayal or, worse, behind precise design; It is rather a story in the smell of Kafka (written by Cesare Frugoni and the director, Armando Crispino) that tells the very modest deeds of a neglected person overwhelmed by responsibilities, by other personalities, by the ungrateful fate that seems to be raging against him. It's a television movie, but at the time the RAI had a decent budget for this kind of work; It is also part of a couple of films – the other is Two Women (1981) – collected under the title Letters to the Director, but independent of each other. Crispino does a good job behind the camera, Riccardo Cucciolla does the same in front; The limits of the operation are found in a scarce plot of topics that revolves around the usual situations without solving them (or resolving) until the pre-final, and also in the construction of events overly imposed on the pure good Cucciolla: but an entire film of an hour and a few minutes can not hold on a single character so arid (at least in the external manifestations of his thoughts and feelings), humble, dismissed, backward. The cast also stars Laura Trotter and Mila Vannucci. The music is by Ennio Morricone and the photography by Roberto Girometti.

Richard Cucciolla

Riccardo Cucciolla ( Bari , 5 September 1924 – Rome , 17 September 1999 ) was an Italian actor , voice actor and dubbing director .

A shy character, distant from social life, with a gaunt face and suffering from a young age, deep-set eyes and a penetrating gaze, Riccardo Cucciolla was discovered by the general public in 1971 as the protagonist of a successful film, Sacco and Vanzetti by Giuliano Montaldo , a director who had already noticed and directed him previously in his film Ad ogni costo (1967). It was thanks to his touching and intense interpretation of Nicola Sacco , alongside Gian Maria Volonté in the role of Bartolomeo Vanzetti , that he was awarded the prize for best actor at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival .

In the following years he was an increasingly critically acclaimed performer and worked simultaneously in Italy and abroad, collaborating with highly talented French directors in equally successful films, such as Night on the City (1972) by Jean-Pierre Melville , alongside Richard Crenna , and Borsalino and Co. (1974) by Jacques Deray , contrasting himself in the role of the Italian gangster Volpone with the protagonist Alain Delon .

Also in 1974, director Mario Bava cast him in his film Rabid Dogs (also known as Red Light , released only 20 years later, in 1995), where Cucciolla played a middle-aged man who, while taking his sick son to the hospital, is taken hostage in his car by a group of sadistic criminals. Cucciolla collaborated again in 1982 with Giuliano Montaldo, the director who made him famous with Sacco and Vanzetti , refusing to cast Yves Montand in his place , in the television drama Marco Polo , playing the role of Uncle Zane. His participation in television dramas, series, and fictions was equally numerous and important, from his first famous soap opera Treasure Island in 1959, to his last appearance in 1999, a few months before his death, in Death of a Respectable Girl .

He also worked as a film dubbing artist : for many years he dubbed Roger Moore and numerous other famous foreign actors, made unmistakable in Italy by his voice. He worked extensively in Rai radio drama , starting from the mid-1940s, both in comedies and radio dramas , within the Radio Roma Prose Company . He was also chosen by numerous Italian directors to direct the dubbing of their films: Cucciolla directed the dubbing of Novecento (1976) by Bernardo Bertolucci , And the Ship Sails On (1983) by Federico Fellini , Once Upon a Time in America (1984) by Sergio Leone , as well as the miniseries La piovra (1984) and the film L'inchiesta (1986), both by Damiano Damiani . Cucciolla was also the narrator of the fifth episode of the Don Camillo film series : Il compagno don Camillo (1965).

Cannes Film Festival
1971 – Prix d'interprétation masculine for Sacco and Vanzetti

Silver Ribbon
1972 – Best Actor in a Leading Role for Sacco and Vanzetti

Voices in the shadows
1998 – "Gualtiero de Angelis" Lifetime Achievement Award