The Scooterist with his Family
Narra las aventuras y desventuras de cuatro guardias de Roma: Alberto, Manganiello, Spaziali y el Mariscal. Todos forman parte de la banda de música del cuerpo, pero Manganiello está harto de interpretar a los clasicos, quiere triunfar con su propias composiciones. Alberto, por su parte, es un apasionado del francés y de la cultura francesa. En cuanto a Spaziali, su única preocupación son sus hijos, sobre todo, el novio de su hija, que es boxeador y motociclista, es decir, un enemigo de los guardias. (FILMAFFINITY)
Despite of (or perhaps because of ) its sparse production values and unpretentiousness, the Italian Gli Innamorati was feted at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The bulk of the story takes place in a single Roman neighborhood. In the manner of the 1925 German classic A Joyless Street, director Mauro Bolognini studies the hopes, dreams, successes and failures of the neighborhood's various and sundry denizens. No one subplot dominates the proceedings, though a bit of extra time is afforded the story of a fickle seamstress and her seemingly meek-and-mild boyfriend. The cast is dotted with such reassuringly familiar faces as Nino Manfredi and Gino Cervi. Released in the US as Wild Love, Gli Innamorati was instrumental in bringing international fame to director Bolognini, whose career soon shifted into high drive.
Toto'
"Antonio" leaves his family to live a prosperous life with Cristina. Her family live in a slum where their lives are complicated by young love and jealousy. A letter from a local priest that implicates "Antonio" in the murder of an English nobleman comes to light and soon they are all before the King.
Railway Worker (uncredited)
El drama se desarrolla en la estación de tren de Roma (la estación Termini). Después de pasar unas vacaciones en Italia, Mary Forbes, una americana casada y con una hija, debe resolver un terrible dilema: coger el tren para regresar a su pais con su familia y reanudar su monótona vida o quedarse con Giovanni, su joven amante, su verdadero amor.
Ciro and Geppo are two thieves.
Ciro
A lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the last years of WWII.
