Mario Ravasco

Tommaso Puzzilli is a boy who grew up in the suburb of Pietralata outside Rome. Not having a job, Tommaso and his friends are committing crimes to make money.

Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.

アカデミー賞外国語映画賞に輝き世界中にその名を轟かせたフェデリコ・フェリーニ監督の出世作。豪放で不器用な旅芸人と彼に引き取られた純粋無垢な少女の切ない物語を描く。主演のジュリエッタ・マシーナとアンソニー・クインの出発点としても有名な作品。