Nicola Acunzo

2005년 교황 요한 바오로 2세의 죽음으로 가톨릭 추기경들은 콘클라베를 위해 바티칸으로 모인다. 세번의 투표 끝에 보수적인 입장에서 가톨릭 신앙을 추구하는 강경파 라칭거가 교황 직위를 얻게 된다. 하지만 재임 기간 중 성직자들이 재단 소년들을 괴롭히고 바티칸의 기밀 유서가 유출되는 등 전무후무한 교회 스캔들에 휩싸인 라칭거는 자진해서 교황직을 내려놓고자 한다. 비슷한 시기, 스스로가 가진 마음의 짐 때문에 추기경직을 사퇴하려는 베르고글리오가 라칭거를 찾는다.

When the need to be something other than what we are becomes too much to bare, sometimes we choose the extreme solution to our problem. The result can change us forever, but leave us with conflicted feelings that are still too much to bare.

Convict Umberto is allowed to work outside prison during daytime as a librarian. There he falls for a beautiful woman who mistakes him for a volunteer helping the inmates — however, like a modern-day Cinderella, every day he must leave and be back to his cell before midnight... will they manage to live happily ever after?

Ulisse, Fulvio and Domenico decide to rent an apartment together in order to live with their modest work. However the three encounter any difficulties that have forced them to always be one step away from starvation. Ulisse has to maintain his wife and daughter selling recordings of important foreign singers, Fulvio has the task of reviewing silly scandals of celebrities instead of writing articles for major artists, while Domenico must keep his wife and children going to make love with old single pensioners.

Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested control of the Milan underworld with a string of high profile robberies, kidnappings and murders. In the process, he captivated the public and earned the nickname ‘il bel Renè’ – for his devilish charm and handsome face. Arrested multiple times, his daring escapes from prison enraged the government, angered his rivals and fed his legend.

68혁명 시기를 전후한 이탈리아. 영화배우가 되고 싶어하는 경찰인 니콜라는 사복을 입고 나갔다가 기성세대와 베트남전에 대한 반대, 성의 자유를 부르짖는 학생들 틈에서 라우라를 만난다. 어느 날 니콜라의 신분이 탄로나고 그녀는 그를 떠난다.

Nicola, paralyzed after a car crash, falls in love for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela, a young couple unfit to have children, fly to Barcelona for a specialized treatment for fertility. Filippo and Fosco, two gay men, decide to marry. Ernesto, waiter in a chic restaurant, has a liaison with Cecilia, the new Spanish help.

A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.

7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will.