Roberto Seveso

Andrea, a forty-year old engineer, suddenly becomes unemployed while his wife France gets a promotion. He is very down hearted and since he does not want to be a burden to his family he takes the place of the house maid.

A young busker goes around in Milan with his saxophone, whereby he always plays the same tune and he experiences surrealistic adventures throughout the big city. Meanwhile, a wealthy woman from the local "jet set" falls in love with him.

Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Episode 1: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to knock off his mistress (in more ways than one). Episode 2: Della is convinced that aliens are on their way to consume the world and before long ends up a guinea pig on a spaceship from the planet Phobos. Episode 3: Roberto becomes a Bersaglieri in the Italian army and nearly causes a war between Italy and Switzerland over a packet of cigarettes.

At age 50, tax inspector Emerenziano decides to settle down and aims to the three Tettamanzi sisters, who, though not young or pretty by any means, have recently inherited a large amount of money.

A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old, mentally retarded woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops race to find the killers before the grieving father does

Broadcast on RAI television in 1967, this charming featurette about a teenage boy’s first crush on a girl reveals director Ermanno Olmi’s love and respect for the dilemmas of everyday people, along with an early example of the kind of stylistic and narrative experimentation seen in his later work.

In Venice in 1943, a group of partisans led by Renato Braschi organize a series of autonomous terrorist attacks against the fascists while the National Liberation Committee urges caution. Renato is determined to carry out his ideas, risking his own life, and not only that...

숙련공인 지오반니는 진급을 조건으로 시실리 지사의 새로운 부서로 18개월간의 파견 근무를 명령 받는다. 이런 상황적 변화는 이미 소원해진 약혼녀 릴리아나와의 관계에 긴장감을 불러 일으킨다. 둘은 주기적으로 댄스 홀에서 만나왔으며 더러 오토바이를 타기도 했었다. 시실리에 도착해서 마을을 걷고 호텔에 머물거나 하숙을 구하거나 마을 행사에 참여하거나 하는 일상에 그는 그리 충실하지 못한 삶을 영위한다. 가슴에 고통과 아픔이 늘 남아있다. 이 거리를 넘어서서 아픈 가슴을 달랠 수 있을까? 이들에게 미래는 있는 것일까? 산업도시 밀라노, 숙련공으로 공장에서 일하는 조반니는 더 나은 대우를 받고 일할 수 있다는 제안에 시칠리아로 떠나기로 한다. 조반니는 약혼녀 릴리아나를 두고 혼자 가기로 하는데, 이로 인해 오랜 연애 끝에 서로 냉담해진 두 사람의 관계에 변화가 생긴다. 단조로운 시칠리아의 생활 속에서 조반니는 고향에 있는 릴리아나를 그리워하기 시작한다. 이탈리아의 후기 네오리얼리즘을 대표하는 거장 에르마노 올미의 세 번째 장편으로, 직장을 구하려는 청년을 통해 1950년대 이탈리아의 고도 성장을 풍자했던 올미의 전작 (1961)과 이어진 이야기로 볼 수 있다. * 1963 칸영화제 OCIC상 © Rai Com(Italy) (2018년 영화의 전당)

Two middle-aged men work as caretakers on an isolated dam construction site high in the snow-capped Italian Alps. When one of them leaves for the valley to spend Christmas vacation with his family he is temporarily replaced with an adolescent boy. The other man is both annoyed and intrigued by the boy and his habits: he listens to loud music, sleeps too long in the mornings and doesn't drink any alcohol. They barely speak to one another in the first couple of days. But when an avalanche cuts their small hut from electricity they slowly start growing more fond of each other.