In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria. They have a son, Robertino, who has a friend: Zvanin. Zvanin is the son of Mingòn and Marianna, two peasants. Dolly is an american cousin and every summer she comes in Romagna. The movie narrates their stories over the years until the post I World War period.
O Signo de Vênus é um filme de comédia italiana de 1955, dirigido por Dino Risi e estrelado por Sophia Loren. Foi inscrito no Festival de Cinema de Cannes de 1955.
Na Itália do início dos anos 1950, enquanto a economia do país renasce, os idosos sofrem com as miseráveis pensões dadas pelo governo. Em Roma, Umberto Domenico Ferrari, um funcionário público aposentado, é despejado por não conseguir pagar o aluguel de seu quarto. Na companhia de seu único amigo, o cachorrinho Flik, Umberto vaga pelas ruas, buscando apenas um objetivo: viver com dignidade.
His 1933 debut, following some years as a journalist and then script boy, was Treno popolare, an early sound lark about several Roman petit bourgeois on a day trip to the country that was influenced by the German proto-neorealist silent picture People on Sunday (1930). Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota.
