The Cruelest Day

The Cruelest Day
Directed byFerdinando Vincentini Orgnani
Written byMarcello Fois
Ferdinando Vincentini Orgnani
Produced byJohn Cesaroni
Gherardo Pagliei
CinematographyGiovanni Cavallini
Music byPaolo Fresu
Release date
  • 28 March 2003 (2003-03-28)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryItaly

The Cruelest Day (Italian: Ilaria Alpi - Il più crudele dei giorni) is a 2003 Italian biographical drama film directed by Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani. It is a dramatization of the last days of life of RAI journalist Ilaria Alpi and of her cameraman Miran Hrovatin before they were murdered in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 20 March 1994. For her performance Giovanna Mezzogiorno won the Nastro d'Argento for best actress.