Director
A wealthy middle-aged man tries to seduce younger women at an oceanfront resort.
Director
Walter Bergman is a boring old travel agent. One day while away on a business trip, he starts hanging out with a group of young swingers.
Production Secretary
A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughter-in-law stumbles upon a secret of the family's Nazi past.
First Assistant Director
둘째 아들 시몬과 셋째 아들 로코 이야기에 나디아라는 여자가 끼어 있다. 시몬은 나디아와 사귀게 되지만 시몬의 도둑질 때문에 나디아가 결별을 통보한다. 로코는 군대에 간다. 1년 후 나디아와 로코가 우연히 길에서 마주친다. 이제 로코랑 나디아가 사귀게 된다.
북부로 이주한 한 시칠리아 가족의 삶을 통해 현대 산업 사회에서의 극빈 노동자들을 다룬 작품. <흔들리는 대지>, <레오파드>와 함께 루키노 비스콘티의 시칠리아 3부작 중 하나로 꼽는다.
Assistant Director
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.
First Assistant Director
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
