The annual film festival in Venice is, of course, an ideal place to make a film (how come no-one has thought of it before). Everything is there in Pupi Avati's Festival: the famous hotels Des Bain and Excelsior on the Lido, the shimmering sandy beach which captivated Visconti. The film was made last spring and exploits the presence of passing film stars such as Jack Nicholson. We see the hysterical press conferences, where journalists and experts ask intelligent questions-without listening to the answers.
Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic.
Egle
An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of the institution to enforce strict rules on these unfortunate women. At the same time, a particularly disturbed nun manages to poison herself and many of the other novitiates in yet another scandal which is covered up by church authorities.
An Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporter's letter-opener so that makes him the main suspect. With the help of his Swedish girlfriend he starts investigating in order to prove his innocence.
Bar Owner
The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.
In '500 a noble Tuscan gives a banquet in which they are told bawdy stories: a cardinal tells dirty stories during a banquet that turns into a purge; a marquise is induced into temptation by an abbot; a tintora has carnal relations with a brother, and the two have a son; prisoner of Charles V , Francis I of France has a relationship with two Spanish and get an acquittal advance by the Pope; a group of cardinals contain a prostitute during a council; the Marquis Cavalcanti, rejected by the bride, vents his cravings with a syphilitic prostitute.
Girl with Cocchi's Sleeping Henchman (uncredited)
A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His actions, including the Corrasco's daughter kidnap, in a Palermo in which also the police is corrupted, will soon destroy the old equilibrium giving the way to an escalation of violence that won't save anyone. If Cocchi will survive to the mafia war he will be the new boss for sure.
Suor Agnese (segment "Due suore")
Two young boys compete for the same girl - a third enjoys from a distance . Two men are abusing a girl. Three men desires a married woman. Two nuns get out in the nice weather with a bunch of monks.
Cloakroom Attendant
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
Harry's girlfriend
A blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders using a black cat with its claws dipped in curare.
3th Courier
방금 출소한 전과자 우고 피아자는 폭력과 고문을 즐기는 정신병자 조폭인 자신의 전 보스 로코를 만난다. 갱과 경찰 모두 우고가 미국의 마약 신디케이트 보스에게 갔어야 하는 30만 달러를 숨겨 놓았다고 생각하는데...
Donna Petrillo's friend (uncredited)
뉴욕시를 지배하고 있는 두 마피아 조직 중 마쌀리아(Masseria: 알렉산드로 스페리 분)계에 발탁되는 발리치(Joe Valachi: 찰스 브론슨 분). 그는 운전 기사로 조직의 일을 시작한다. 타 마피아 조직인 마란자노(Marazano: 조셉 와이즈만 분)계와 일대 격전에서 이름을 날리게되고 중간 보스로 성장하는 발리치. 그는 미국 최대의 마피아 조직을 이끌어가게 된다.
