It tells the story of a general who is about to cut down an old forest for the sake of financial gain, but discovers that the forest is inhabited by invisible spirits
In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose starts to whistle uncontrollably, he checks into a clinic to resolve the problem. What begins as a minor affliction worsens, and Giuseppe is placed on a different floor as his ailments multiply. The sicker he gets, the higher he goes up in the floors of the clinic, until he is near death's door.
The love life of an aging architect used to love affairs with call girls, who in the end settles down with a girl of his class but still longs for the life he has led so far, which ends in disillusion.
Through the narrative expedient of following, step by step, the working day of a mountain postman (Angelo Lezuo), effectively tells the daily life, in the fifties, of all a community in the Dolomites: that of the inhabitants of Colle Santa Lucia in the province of Belluno.
Through the narrative expedient of following, step by step, the working day of a mountain postman (Angelo Lezuo), effectively tells the daily life, in the fifties, of all a community in the Dolomites: that of the inhabitants of Colle Santa Lucia in the province of Belluno.