Francesco Grandjacquet

Luchino Visconti's nephew's debut, also awarded at the Venice Film Festival. Detailing the title and translating: 'A (n upper middle-class love) story set in the italian town if Milan (at the beginning of the '60s)'

Alfredo Martelli, un joven anticuario de turbio pasado, es detenido por la policía. Tras ser sometido a un interrogatorio de varias horas, el Comisario Palumbo le comunica que es el principal sospechoso de la muerte de Adalgisa De Matteis, una de sus acaudaladas amantes. Durante su estancia en la comisaría, evoca diversos episodios de su sórdido pasado y llega a la conclusión de que él es el responsable de lo que le está pasando.

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.

Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Estando Roma ocupada por los nazis, la temible Gestapo trata de arrestar a Manfredi, el líder del Comité Nacional de Liberación. Annie Marie ofrece refugio en su casa a Manfredi y a algunos de sus camaradas, pero los alemanes descubren su escondrijo y rodean la vivienda; algunos partisanos consiguen escapar por los tejados, pero Manfredi es apresado.

An Italian film from 1943.