I saw this film as a child and even now it remains the most moving film I've seen and one of the most memorable. The relationship between father and son is a pleasure to watch but at the same time heartbreaking. The final scenes set in the fairground is particularly sad, one to watch especially if you're a girl in need of a good cry. It was labelled "the saddest story ever told" and it certainly seems like that to me. I saw it with a group of girls in school and we were all equally impressed.

There are some funny moments also, some beautiful scenery, and the film has a particularly moving theme tune.

It's with pleasure I've finally been able to obtain this video.

A quite fine film about the relationship berween an adolescent son and his father, a workaholic lawyer: besid The father has a new girlfriend, Veronica who intends to find her place in the life of Roberto and his son Luca.Little by little the son manages to spend more time with his father. And with the illness, Roberto will spend all his time to spend with his son in his last moments of life. It's important that this film has been made in 1973 and the subject is well treated without an excessive dramatism.The performance of Bekim Fehmiu (Roberto) , Renato Cestiè (Luca) and Agostina Bella are very good.

I watched this film about 20 years along with another Italian release 'Last Feelings'. Both films are extremely powerful tearjerkers and were released together in the UK. They affected me so much that I think about them to this day and have recently been trying to track down copies of them - this seems to be impossible, but i still remember them quite vividly. I dare you to watch this film without shedding a tear. Especially the fairground scene at the end. Heartbreaking.