Property Master
Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many incidents that culminated with his arrest and the confiscation by the commissioner Juvet. Released, find randomly hospitality at the madame Lenormand and know the great painter Valentine. Both women are tied up, as a wife and lover, Maurice, in prison for robbery. A day Piero wears a mistake and the coat of astrakhan, Maurice, and then...
Property Master
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal thoughts. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. However, Mauro becomes unconsciously jealous of their relationship and tries to get Giovanni arrested.
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Basada en una novela autobiográfica de Carlo Levi ("Cristo si è fermato a Eboli"), destacado escritor y pintor antifascista que, en 1935, acusado de conspirar contra el régimen de Mussolini, fue condenado al destierro en un remoto pueblecito de Lucania (la actual Basilicata), una de las regiones más pobres y atrasadas de Italia. Levi define la situación de los campesinos lucanos como anterior a la era cristiana. El título expresa metafóricamente el hecho de que los medios de transporte, es decir, la civilización, se detengan en Éboli, dejando al margen del progreso el resto de Lucania.
