| La vita agra | |
| Director: | Carlo Lizzani |
| Producer: | E. Nino Krisman |
| Starring: | Ugo Tognazzi Giovanna Ralli Nino Krisman Enzo Jannacci Giampiero Albertini Rossana Martini Elio Crovetto |
| Music: | Piero Piccioni |
| Cinematography: | Erico Menczer |
| Editing: | Franco Fraticelli |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
La vita agra is a 1964 Italian film by director Carlo Lizzani, based on Luciano Bianciardi's novel of the same name.
In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[1]
Luciano Bianciardi, author of the novel, appeared in a small cameo.