Nello Esposito
The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.
Marcello
제2차 세계대전 말기 로마가 독일에 의해 점령되었던 시기에 실제로 일어났던 사건에서 소재를 취해 재구성한 영화. 연인의 밀고로 체포되어 사살된 레지스탕스 지도자, 레지스탕스를 돕다가 처형된 신부, 게슈타포에 끌려가는 애인을 향해 달려가다 총에 맞아 죽은 여인의 이야기 등이 엮여있다.