Lady on a diet
Nando Moriconi, es un encantador joven del barrio de Trastevere en Roma, obsesionado con todo lo americano. Nando alterna su marcado acento romano con unos americanismos inverosímiles y repite continuamente los diálogos que ha aprendido de las películas americanas. Persiguiendo su sueño de viajar a América y descubrir la sociedad más poderosa del mundo, Nando no hará más que armar una serie de innumerables líos que no le llevan a ninguna parte.
Amica baronessa
In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.
Contessa
Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
La madre di Enzo Pirani
A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.
Sig.ra De Mori
Altra vicina di casa
Henriette Fontages
Jeanne
Giulia
An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.
Zelinda Tortorelli
The rich banker Rosen of Livorno fear that the Bonapartist will take all his gold, so he is hiding it inside a cuckoo clock.
Antonietta
