Maurizio Santilli

On board a train on its last trip, five people know each other, collide, make friends and solve their personal issues finding out what's really important in life.

O filme conta a história de Giuseppe Moscati, um médico ainda muito admirado na Itália pelo trabalho que fez com os pobres no final do século XIX e inicio do século XX e um dos poucos leigos a ser canonizado pela Igreja Católica, que reconheceu sua santidade em 1987. O filme mostrasua trajetória e sua ajuda no tratamento de pessoas necessitadas em pela epidemia do Cólera, das que sofreram da erupção do vulcão Vesúvio e na condução das investigações que levaram a descoberta da insulina como cura para a diabetes.

Eight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From prostitution to virtual sex all the categories are represented in a funny way that anyway tries to investigate this kind of reality.

After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine that he thought. At one point anyway the partisans free Alba from Germans. When the city falls again in German hands Johnny escape with Ettore and Pierre. But, one after another, German army and Italian fascists captures the partisans and Johnny will pass the winter alone and isolated. He then finds the way to participate to one of the last attack to occupants, in fact the war will be over two months later.

The movie is based on the autobiography of Horst Fantazzini. Son of an anarchist, he was known in Northern Italy as “the gentleman bandit” because he robbed banks without violence, with only a toy gun. After many convictions and jailbreaks, in the summer of 1973 he's being held in Fossano, Piedmont when he tries to escape again. This time things get messy and he has to use a real gun and take two prison guards as hostages.