Giovanni Percolla lives in Catania surrounded by the attentive cares of his three sisters. He permanently acts like a Don Giovanni to hide his real poor "knowledge" of women. With his friend he moves also to Rome but women still continues to remain part of his fantasies. But Giovanni succeeded to build anyway a fame of "tombeur de femmes". One day he meets the real love of Maria Antonietta and decides to marry. Will things change?
lo stregone
A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
General Olivazzi (segment "La Giornata dell'Onorevole")
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
With the desire to be rich gnawing at him, an arriviste pursues a golden real-estate opportunity at the expense of friends and family. Now, he has to renounce his dignity. What's the good of chasing success when you are left all alone?
Don Vincenzo
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
Insegnante di scuola primaria
Dante Trilli, who has been teaching in his village school for about twenty years, wins a competition for Milan. Waiting for him is his childhood friend, where he is the janitor in the school where Trilli will teach.
zio di Ivan Cavalli
이제 막 결혼식을 마친 신혼부부 이반과 완다는 로마 근교로 신혼여행을 떠난다. 그런데 완다는 로마에 도착하자마자 자신이 좋아하는 소설의 주인공 ‘백인 추장’을 찾아 무작정 길을 나선다. 한 부부의 짧은 여행담으로 당시 이탈리아 사회의 분위기와 불안정한 심리를 담아낸다. 1952년 베니스영화제 경쟁부문 상영
Party guest speaking French (uncredited)
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Giovanni did what he should never have done: he associated himself with the crook. Giulio soon laid hands on Giovanni's money, ruined his career and manhandled him into marrying his own mistress, the beautiful Ginevra. It was of course an unhappy marriage but Giovanni found a little solace when his son Ciro was born. Seven years later though, Wanzer resurfaced...