Leonida Barboni

Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners are asking for the mercy of Pope. Others, like Augusto Parenti, prefer to fight for their rights until the end. His wife, Teresa is a simple woman, who gets involved with the rebels.

This vehicle for the great actress Anna Magnani was one of the four made for Italian television and shown in 1971-1972 at the end of her career. The other three were "La sciantosa," "Correva l'anno di grazia 1870," and "L'automobile" and were all directed by Alfredo Giannetti.

La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" and "L'autmobile". In this first movie, La Magnani is Flora Torres, a "sciantosa" (kind of a small stage diva) who is forgotten during the WWI, living only to remember her past glory. One day she receives a letter to present herself to the high command. There, Flora is called to go to the front and entertain the troops. Along with her maid Cristina, Flora goes to the front. There they are welcomed by the young private Tonino (Massimo Ranieri). Flora starts to act like a prima donna, making absurd demands to everyone. But when she is about to present herself, the vision of the wounded soldiers makes her change her way

A Frenchman finds his runaway wife on an island in the Pacific.

Here's an interesting Italian/German co-production, full of subjects from 1968 protest, recalling the two infamous "bikini thrillers","Interrabang" and "Top sensation", in which three young beauties (Rosemarie Dexter, Doris Kunstmann and Laura Troschel), alluring their male friend (Bernard De Vries), embark on a journey in a luxury yacht around the coast of Yugoslavia, plenty of bedhopping, nudity and the usual hijinks occur before things take a sinister turn when they decide to lock themselves in a cabin and dose up on LSD

A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer.

Musical - Soprano Anna Moffo stars as winsome courtesan Violetta Valery -- who tries to protect her rash lover, Alfredo (Franco Bonisolli), even if it means lying and breaking his heart -- in this 1968 version of composer Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece. Recorded at the Rome Opera House with renowned conductor Giuseppe Patanè leading the orchestra and chorus, the production also stars Gino Bechi as Alfredo's angst-ridden father. - Anna Moffo, Gino Bechi, Franco Bonisolli

A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.

A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work.

카이로에서 엄청난 양의 황금이 도난당하는 사건이 발생하자 국제 경찰은 ‘폭스’란 별명을 가진 사기꾼이자 도둑인 바누치가 이 사건에 연루됐을 거라고 생각하고 그를 주시한다. 바누치는 기발한 아이디어로 늘 사기에 성공하며 어떤 상황에서도 교묘하게 벗어나는 것으로 명성이 높은 국제적인 사기꾼인데, 감옥에 있다가 영화배우가 된 여동생이 정숙치 못한 생활을 한다고 오해하고 감옥에서 탈옥한다. 탈옥하자마자 집으로 간 바누치는 여동생을 감시하는 동시에 카이로의 황금을 훔친 자들의 제안을 받아들여 이탈리아에 황금을 밀반입하는 것을 돕기로 한다. 황금을 무사히 밀반입할 방법을 생각하던 바누치는 여동생의 영화 촬영 현장을 보다가 영화 촬영을 가장해 황금을 들여올 기발한 계획을 세운다. 영화감독으로 위장한 그는 유명한 배우인 토니를 캐스팅하고 이탈리아의 작은 해안 도시인 셀바리오를 촬영지로 정하는데 셀바리오 주민들은 바누치와 유명배우 토니를 신처럼 떠받들고 영화 촬영에 적극 동참한다. 하지만 바누치의 엄마를 감시하던 경찰은 바누치의 행방을 알게 되고 결국 바누치는 체포되어 재판을 받고 다시 감옥으로 향하게 되지만 특유의 재치를 발휘해 다시 탈옥한다.

Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina"chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving opportunistic gypsy babysitter who uses her employer's kids for her own gain. The third episode, "Queen Elena" centers on a husband who learns a lesson about the perils of infidelity after he succumbs to the wiles of the seductive wife next door. The last vignette, "Queen Marta" centers on a wealthy woman who, when drunk, uses her butler as an outlet for her lust.

While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.

A vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibition and the pursuit of pleasure in sex.

Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...

This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.

Salvatori pays a visit to his old ma who is bedridden in a gloomy old people’s home. He promises her that pretty soon he’ll be rich and they’ll live together in their house. The young man is hired as a catering assistant in a desirable mansion, but the owner of the place is dying. The wife and the daughter are trying to regain the old man’s love and affection while the son is busy gathering his friends for a feast.

A dozen sketches: (1) how it is not easy for parents to reveal the mystery of birth to their young children. (2) how the first kiss can be pleasant for teenagers and a worry to their parents. (3) how violent a male ego can be after a woman's rejection. (4) how double standards work in view of a woman's loss of virginity. (5) how modern psichology can influence a pregnant woman to deal with her dilemma. (6) how hiding her sexual past to the bridegroom does not succeed past their nuptial night. (7) how aspiring actresses have to pay a price for success. (8) how a matrimony can be a social hypocrisy by a cheating couple. (9) how a girl eager to marry discovers too late her husband's true nature. (10) how an emigrant's wife shall overcome her sexual need through music, and dancing. (11) how divorce can be a way to settle peacefully a union that no longer works. (12) how a man can overcome the shock of being married to a woman who was raped by some truck drivers

몰락해가는 가문 체파루 가문의 페르디난도 세팔루는 지루한 삶 속에서 그의 부인까지 지겨워하는 시칠리안 귀족이다. 그는 대저택에서 같이 여름을 보낸 아름다운 사촌 안젤라와 사랑에 빠진다. 이탈리아에서는 1960년대부터 이혼이 금지되어 있기에 페르디난도는 그의 부인을 죽이고 사촌과 결혼을 하려 한다. 그는 가장 명예로운 살인 방법을 택하려 한다. 페르디난도는 그의 부인을 유혹해 다른 남자의 품에 안기도록 하는 계획을 세워 명예를 지킨다는 명분으로 아내를 살해하고 재혼을 계획한다. 마을에서 치정에 의한 살인 사건이 발생하였으나 명예를 중시하는 이태리인의 관습상 죽은 간부보다는 살아있는 피해자 부인에게 동정표가 몰려 가벼운 처벌을 받는 것을 본 그는 기운을 얻어 치밀한 계획을 세운다. 우연히 아내에게 자신과 결혼하기 이전에 아내를 사랑했던 남자가 있음을 발견한 그는 그가 화가임을 알고 일부러 자신의 집 천방의 벽화 수리를 의뢰하고 아내와의 자리를 주선한다. 그리고 최신식 녹음기를 설치하고 둘 사이의 불륜을 잡을 만반의 준비를 갖춘다. 익명의 투서를 만들어 자신에게 아내가 불륜을 저지르고 있다는 증거도 남겨놓고 현장과 증거를 잡기에 혈안이 되어 있던 중 오랜 기다림 끝에 드디어 둘 사이에 사랑의 옛 감정이 되살아 나고 있음을 감지한다. 마을에 영화가 들어옴을 빌리로 온 가족이 모두 자리를 비워주어 일부러 자리를 피해준다. 그리고 다시 돌아와 그들을 쏘아 죽일 계획을 세우지만 이들은 세파루의 예상을 벗어나 달아나 버린다.

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector.

The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property. But Ferdinando's nephew Amerigo holds out. Amerigo's stance is weakened when he heads for Florence and meets prostitute Bianca.

Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.

Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at selling their persona than creating art.

LA CASA DELLE VEDOVE portrays a group of widows who, he thinks, lived in a constant ‘dialogue‘ with death. In the house where they all lived ‘every colour was saturated with that special reddish shade that you see everywhere in Rome, and furthermore the rooms were filled with a stale, musty smell.‘

비 오는 오후, 로마 시내의 어느 오래된 고급 아파트에 도둑이 든다. 기동 경찰대의 인그라발로 반장(피에트로 제르미)은 이 강도 사건의 범인을 수색하기 위해 조사를 시작하지만, 정작 피해자는 성직자로서 지나친 사치를 하고 있는 것이 세상에 알려질까 봐 사건을 숨기려 한다. 이 사건의 범인으로 지목되었던 지오메데(니노 카스텔누오보)는 이웃집 하녀 아순티나(클라우디아 카르디날)의 약혼자로 미국인 여성과 함께 있었다는 알리바이가 성립되어 풀려나고, 결국 범인을 찾지 못한 채 미수 사건에 그칠 지경에 이르게 된다. 그러나 일주일 뒤, 강도 사건이 발생했던 바로 옆집에서 젊고 매력 있는 안주인인 릴리아나 반두치(엘리오노라 로씨 드라고)가 흉기에 찔려 살해당하는 사건이 발생한다. 경찰은 같은 아파트에서 연 이어 발생한 두 차례의 사건을 동일 인물 소행일 것이라고 의심하게 된다. 강도 사건부터 다시 수사하기 시작한 반장은 강도 미수 사건에 그쳤던 릴리아나의 옆집에서 열쇠하나가 발견되었다는 사실을 알게 되지만 대수롭지 않게 생각하고 넘기고, 살해 피해자인 릴리아나와 가장 가까운 사람들, 릴리아나의 유산과 관계된 사람들부터 조사하기 시작한다. 먼저 릴리아나가 정기적으로 돈을 보태주고 있던 직업이 의사인 사촌 그리고 무엇인가를 감추고 조사를 피하기만 하려는 남편을 수사선 상에 올린다. 이런 와중에 반장에게 한통의 쪽지가 도착되는데 살인자는 릴리아나의 남편이니 시간낭비 하지 말라는 내용이었다. 이에 반장은 릴리아나의 남편을 집중적으로 조사하게 된다. 그러나 남편은 릴리아나의 예전 하녀였던 버지니아의 유혹에 그녀와 불륜을 갖게 되어 그녀를 피하고 있었지만 알고 보니 버지니아는 릴리아나의 사촌과 남편 모두에게 불륜의 관계를 가지고 있었다. 결국 이들의 살인 혐의는 풀려나고, 사건은 다시 원점으로 돌아가게 되지만, 이 순간 반장에게 떠오른 강도 사건시에 발견된 열쇠로 아순티나의 약혼자인 지오메데가 범인임을 알아낸다.

A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.

Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends the seaside. Luisa leaves with Giulio for several weeks. Andrea stays to work at the metal shop.

The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it.

나이 오십대에 접어든 철도기관사 안드리아(Andrea Marcocci: 피에트로 게르미 분)는 늦게 본 막내아들 산드로(Sandrino: 에도아르도 네볼라 분)가 영웅처럼 떠받드는 아버지이다. 그러나 그는 가난했고 큰 아들은 자기 때문에 고생하는 어머니편만 들다 집을 나가 거리의 불량배가 된다. 게다가 딸은 가게 점원과 사랑을 해 임신을 한다. 삶의 무게에 짖눌린 안드레아는 정신을 다른 쪽에 팔다가 어느날 철도에 투신 자살을 하는 사람에게 그만 충돌 사고를 내고 만다. 그후 그는 매일 술에 취해 집에 들어오는 데 동료기관사들까지 파업에도 아랑곳하지 않고 기차를 모는 그를 따돌린다. 점점 술에 취해 들어오는 빈도가 높아지고 그럴 때 막내 산드로가 꾀를 낸다. 퇴근 시간마다 아버지를 기다렸다 같이 집으로 모시고 오는 것이다. 자신을 영웅처럼 우러러보는 막내 아들, 그는 집으로 발길을 돌린다. 집안은 점차 평화를 되찾고 불량배들과 휩쓸려 다니던 큰 아들도 집으로 온다. 아무 말없이 자기 목도리를 돌려주면서 용돈이 있냐고 무뚝뚝하게 묻는 안드리아. 그는 모든 오해가 풀린 뒤 동료 기관사들과 함께 크리스마스 파티를 한다. 기분 좋게 노래도 하고 손님들이 다 간뒤 기타도 친다. 그러다 그는 침대에 누워 잠자듯이 숨을 거둔다. 그의 얼굴엔 희미한 미소를 띄고 있었다.

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.

Dennis O'Keefe plays a GI who falls in love with Mara Lane in postwar Rome. Lane kills her boss, forcing her to flee the law. O'Keefe goes along for the ride so that he won't be knocked off by Lane's husband. Just when it looks as though O'Keefe is willing to go to any lengths to protect the woman he loves, he discovers that she frankly isn't worth it.

Dennis O'Keefe plays a GI who falls in love with Mara Lane in postwar Rome. Lane kills her boss, forcing her to flee the law. O'Keefe goes along for the ride so that he won't be knocked off by Lane's husband. Just when it looks as though O'Keefe is willing to go to any lengths to protect the woman he loves, he discovers that she frankly isn't worth it.

During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore.

The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.

A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married flies off his handle and commits a murder of which an innocent man is accused. He is however tormented by his conscience.

Afterfive people die in crumbling Naples housing run by Northerners, the Southern relatives trek to Milan to sue for damages.

Oreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly.

In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.

A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.

Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead.

The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships.

The plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia.

Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.