Turi Pandolfini
Nascimento : 1883-11-10, Catania, Italy
Morte : 1962-03-06
senatore Bucci
Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to a bring the group down.
Love is born between Anna, daughter of Alfonso, a wealthy farmer, and Luigi, a drum player in a musical band, who live in two different villages-Square on the Piano and Casalieta. This feeling is thwarted by her father, who would like to give her in marriage to Nicolino, a law student and son of a landowner, who has seen the girl only once and was struck by her beauty. Ahead of a party, her father prevents Anna from going out into the square where the band is scheduled to perform; the girl then comes up with the idea of delivering a note to Rosetta, the innkeeper's sister and a great friend of hers, finding mediation from Marcellino.
sindaco
Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.
Professor Avallone
Luciano, who studies at the university, falls in love with Sandra, a high school student, who returns his love. If her family is very rich, his family is of modest extraction; however, the difference in condition does not seem to be a problem, and Luciano's degree increases the hope of a happy future. However, following a sudden financial collapse, Sandra's family business failed: so, to help her parents, the girl accepted the kindness of a very rich childhood friend, deciding to marry him.
A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance...
Il nonno di Gianni
While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
Grandfather of Gabriella
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.
The Bespectacled Customer at Barber's (uncredited)
Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
The master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil with an extraordinary baritone voice.
Beretta
Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
detenuto
A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.
nonno di Bianca Maria
A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband. Fascinated by the beauty of the unexpected guest, the lawyer is determined to conquer her, in vain. But when the woman leaves, she discovers that she has been stolen some money.
The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.
Salvatore Serafini
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.
Detenuto
In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.
Cannizzaro, il vecchio della penna
Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.
cancelliere del tribunale
A former prostitute and a Polish infant are the only survivors of a train crash. Despite their mutual love, the woman's past comes back to haunt her.
Scandurra, il professore di Storia
It's the last year of highschool of a group of teenagers, and now they have to face their final exam, and the loves, happy or not, that sprung during those years of school.
Passeggero dell'autobus
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
veterinario di Monterotondo (segment "Garibaldina")
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
Zi' Dima, mastro del paese
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Il cancelliere
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
Pawnbroker (uncredited)
The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.
A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
Macaluso
A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
Gennaro
Cavalier Terzetti
Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
Il collega vecchio
Il parroco
In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Ragioniere Filippetti
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
Don Fifì
A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.
Grandfather (uncredited)
A localização: Roma ocupada pelos nazistas. Como Roma é classificada como uma cidade aberta, a maioria dos romanos pode passear pelas ruas sem medo de a cidade ser bombardeado ou eles serem mortos no processo. Mas a vida para os romanos ainda é difícil com a ocupação nazista. Há um toque de recolher, alimentos básicos são racionados, e os nazistas ainda estão procurando aqueles que trabalham para a resistência e fazem qualquer coisa para reprimir os que estão na resistência e ninguém dá nenhuma ajuda aos partisans.
Don Ignazio D'Azevegno
Sicily, early 1900s. An impoverished prince settles into the house of a rich shipowner and becomes his counselor.
un altro cittadino siciliano
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
Italian film by Guido Brignone.