Claudio Treves
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
Anna is a girl who has been under psychiatric therapy for a long time and she needs lots and lots of love.
Antonio
Narrator
Paolo Solinas, un joven sacerdote, regresa a su pueblo natal, en Cerdeña, donde se ve envuelto en la disputa entre dos familias rivales: los Barras y los Corraine. En recuerdo del amor que años antes le ligó a Agnese, una hija de Barras, Paolo intenta reconciliar a las dos familias. El jefe de los Corraine desea casar a su sobrino con Agnese, pero la joven, que sigue enamorada de Paolo, rechaza la boda. La guerra estalla de nuevo con más fuerza que antes. Al darse cuenta de que todavía se siente atraído por Agnese, y de que es correspondido, Paolo decide pedir el traslado.
Il funzionario della Casa per il Mezzogiorno
Paolo conduce en su taxi a la encantadora Lina y a sus tres amigos a la playa, pero se da cuenta de que lo que ellos pretenden es robarle su vehículo. Ella le enreda con explicaciones confusas y le lleva a conocer a Sopriano, su padre. Paolo piensa que se trata de una familia honrada, hasta que descubre que la pitillera de oro que ella le ha dado había sido sustraída, que Sopriano se ha apropiado de una maleta en la estación y que padre e hija son carteristas en los autobuses. Paolo los denuncia a la Policía, pero ellos se las arreglan para distorsionar los hechos y parecer que son inocentes. Desesperado, Paolo propone a Lina que abandone la vida de ladrona...
Domenico Barbaja
As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
Il sovrintendente
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
(Voice dubbing for Franco Fabrizi)
El ataque de la marina italiana a la marina británica anclada en Creta, en 1941.
A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, where he is to deliver a symbolic dove of peace to a group of WW II freedom fighters. Somehow, Boris winds up in Venice minus the dove. As he searches up street and down canal for the missing bird, he meets and falls in love with luscious flower-girl Maria.
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Ambasciatore d'Inghilterra
Sergente
A young bourgeois who launders money for the mafia gets accused of murder.
Il falsario
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.
