페루자에서 여학생들을 교살하는 연쇄살인 사건이 일어난다. 사건을 담당한 마르티노는 검정색과 붉은색이 섞인 스카프를 결정적인 증거로 잡고 탐문 수사를 해보지만 스카프 상인인 지아니에게서 아무 정보를 얻지 못한다. 그러나 사실은 그 스카프를 기억하고 있었던 지아니가 범인을 눈치채고 협박하다 살해당하고 만다. 한편 대학생인 제인과 다니엘라, 카티아, 우르술라는 교외의 외딴 별장으로 휴가를 떠나기로 한다. 하지만 불행히도, 연쇄살인범은 이들을 쫓아가기로 한다.
Madonna Violante goes to Rome to find the three Armida daughters, Lorenza and Vanna, who she has not seen for many years; but first she stops by her friend Antonia from whom he learned many unseemly things about them.
A satire of modern society or perhaps just a funny tale for children, depending on your age, mood or liking. Recounting the adventures of the last in a line of Supermen, the film pokes fun at the processes that lie behind advertising, politics and our consumer society.
A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by Enrico Bottini.
Marco and his son Toto work in a Venetian gondola yard and maintain the old traditions of gondoliers. When a newly-arrived businessman decides he wants to buy the yard and demolish it, Marco and company want to fight to preserve their way of life. The businessman, however, knows Marco is badly in debt and uses this to try to leverage Marco out of business. Can tradition win out in the face of naked commercialism?
In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
