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An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the family, but a child who lives a miserable family life kills himself. In the debate that follows it is proposed that they should eat the children, as Swift had said. In the next episode, a general who is in the toilet is called for the NATO parade, but the flasher breaks and in his effort to fix it, he dirts allover and kills himself. In a children's show an inspector finds excuses and delays the arrest of a powerful man...
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Chuva, neblina, frio e poluição assolam a cidade industrial de Ravenna, na Itália. Ugo, o gerente de uma usina local, é casado com Giuliana, uma dona de casa que sofre de problemas psicológicos. Um dia, ela conhece o engenheiro Zeller, o que pode mudar sua vida. Em O Deserto Vermelho, Antonioni, no auge de sua forma, aborda os temas centrais de sua filmografia: a incomunicabilidade e a solidão do homem contemporâneo.
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Os irmãos gémeos foram criados por lobos, revoltaram-se contra a tirania na Itália pré-romana e depois chegaram a uma divisão dos caminhos enquanto lideravam seu povo para a fundação de uma nova cidade, os fundadores de Roma.
Key Grip
Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world.
