Giovanni Pasqua
As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home, he becomes increasingly aware that the Mafia has taken hold of his village, witnessing angry and frustrated as gangsters control local politics and take whatever they want from the people. Placido helps to form a trade union as a challenge to the Mafia's authority, and attempts to organize the villagers into a collective to grow crops in the fields taken by the Mafia.
Shopkeeper
第2次世界大戦中のイタリア。シチリア島の漁村で暮らす12歳の少年レナートは、美しい年上の女性マレーナに魅せられる。彼女は結婚して2週間で戦地に送られた夫の帰りを待ち続け、レナートはそんな彼女の姿を見守っては想いを募らせていた。戦局の移り変わりで島はナチス、次いで米軍の支配下となり、戦争未亡人となったマレーナは自分を庇護してくれる愛人の間を渡り歩く。だがそんな彼女の行動は島の人々の反感を買う。
イタリアの名匠ジュゼッペ・トルナトーレによる、映画史に残る至高の名作。イタリアのシチリアを舞台に、少年と映写技師が映画を通して心を通わせていく様を、感動的な音楽と繊細な人物描写で描き出す。映画監督のサルヴァトーレ（ジャック・ペラン）は、映写技師のアルフレード（フィリップ・ノワレ）という老人が死んだという知らせを受け、故郷のシチリアに帰郷する。
Lo Presto
A group of policemen and policewomen from different municipalities are in Rome to take a course that will take them on a study trip to London.
Story Supervisor
In 1848, as Italy becomes engulfed in a bubbling revolution to finally get rid of the ruling Austrians, a patriotic prisoner named Cainazzo begins to wonder if he will soon get the chance to see the revolution in action away from his prison cell. Suddenly, a cannonball comes flying through the air and knocks the main wall of the prison down. Excited to have a chance to see the change taking place in person, Cainazzo hits a bumpy road when one of his former fellow prisoners yells out to all the revolutionary gangs that Cainazzo is not a patriot, but is in fact a traitor!
