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