Filmquiz (2008)

A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile".

Sergio has a degree in botanics, but cannot find a job. Then, he gets the announcement that his former girlfriend is getting married.

Two construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some work on his rural mansion, before he's due to make his big career comeback-concert in his home city. It all seems like an easy enough job, but the small town community doesn't like strangers.

Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the family, but a child who lives a miserable family life kills himself. In the debate that follows it is proposed that they should eat the children, as Swift had said. In the next episode, a general who is in the toilet is called for the NATO parade, but the flasher breaks and in his effort to fix it, he dirts allover and kills himself. In a children's show an inspector finds excuses and delays the arrest of a powerful man...

이탈리아 카톨릭교도 움베르토(디에고 아바탄투오노 분)는 이웃의 유태인 레오네(세르지오 카스텔리토 분)에게 손님을 계속 잃자 싸움을 벌인다. 부모들은 견원지간지만 아이들은 누구보다 친한 사이. 꼬마들은 학교 단짝이고 그들의 형과 누나는 연인이다. 1938년 인종법(Race laws)이 공표되자 유태인은 일을 할 수도, 마음대로 사유재산도 가질 수 없게 된다. 두 집안은 남다른 우정과 연대를 보이게 되지만...