Фильм основан на биографии католического святого Филиппа Нери, которого называют "Божьим шутом". Действие фильма разворачивается в Италии в XVI веке. История святого рассказана с юмором и долей трогательной романтики...
Филипп Нери любит пошутить и часто расхаживает по улицам в странном виде — в гигантских туфлях или с заплатами на одеянии, с большой подушкой на голове, держа букет из сорняков. Филипп — священник, который помогает беспризорным детям и сиротам в его бедной маленькой часовне.
Bartolo, the restaurateur
У женатого промышленника Андреа Дамиани, есть связь на стороне с красавицей Джулией. Девушка вынуждает его рассказать все своей жене, но он не решается. Не подозревая, что его жена, тоже состоит в связи, с так называемым Графом, который по несчастному совпадению работает на него.
Il nonno di Giuseppe
A father and his four sons during the 18th century have their lives thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a woman at their villa. She quickly takes on multiple roles of sister, mother, confidant and lover to all, plunging the men into confusion and leading to an almost mythic ending.
Padre di Carletto
Four comic episodes based on betrayal. The main characters are a famous professionist that receives a girl as his anniversary present, a wife tired of her boring marriage, a look-alike of a dangerous wanted person and a very jealous husband. Fantastic Italian actors as Walter Chiari and Luciano Salce act in this beautiful movie.
Nonno di Giuseppe
Cafe Owner
Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton (David Hemmings), is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio (Fabio Testi), an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni (John Loffredo), however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.
Old Husband
The adventures of a cad in Napoleonic times.
Country bumpkin Maria Rosa becomes the new maid in a second-rate Roman hotel. A hole in the wall behind the mirror in her room turns her and a horny bellboy into voyeurs
Un carcerato
Anselmo Barsetti - The Sacristan
Don Giorgio, a handsome young priest and teacher in a convent, is involved with two lovers: Orchidea and Giulia. When he repents and vows to return to the Church, he is savagely beaten to death. Not long after, Giulia has her throat slashed. Inspector Boito falls in love with and prepared to marry Orchidea, who is also the main suspect. The key to solving the case seems to lie with an inquisitive boy called Ferruccio, who is kept locked up and drugged. He witnessed one of the murders, but will anyone believe his story?
Agilulfo (uncredited)
During the early Italian Renaissance and the Black Death epidemic, a group of young men and women, seeking refuge in a secluded villa just outside the city of Florence, shares different stories of adultery and forbidden love.
Виолончелист Никколо Вивальди играет в городском оркестре Вероны на знаменитой Арене. Увы, но в оркестре он не первая, и даже не вторая виолончель. Но это не главная его печаль. Дело в том, что никто не запоминает его лица и имени — даже консьерж в доме, где он живёт с Костанцей, красавицей женой, которую он тайком сфотографировал дарёным «Поляроидом» в обнаженном виде. Показав фото обнаженной жены приятелю из оркестра, Никколо вдруг понимает, что ему стало легче, его депрессия улетучилась. Воодушевившись, он начинает писать комическую оперу «Самец дрозд», которая, как обнаруживается через некоторое время, повторяет нота в ноту знаменитую «Сороку-воровку» Россини. Чтобы поддержать пошатнувшуюся самооценку, Никколо решает использовать исключительные природные данные жены.
Johnny King, a rebellious drifter, sets out to avenge the death of his mentor and friend, Steve, after he has been murdered for his land by the Ward Brothers. After causing some trouble for the Wards, Johnny faces a new opponent, his outlaw friend, Meredith.
Hotel Concierge
Nefarious villain Goldginger (Fernando Rey) is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco (Franco Franchi) and Ciccio (Ciccio Ingrassia) in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies.
Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia. Attanasia turns one of them into a successful boxer by setting up his matches and makes the other into his right hand. When a gang war starts the two are accused of the murders and are sentenced to death. When the execution day comes they refuse to leave their cell, even when they are proved innocent.
Il Brigadiere della Polizia (segment "La Roulotte Squillo")
Чем более обыденными становятся автомобили, тем чаще за рулем можно увидеть женщин. Какие они водители? Разные – хорошие и вредные, осмотрительные и неосторожные, отличницы и двоечницы… Пять историй – «Спринт по-кармелитски», «Путана с прицепом», «Синьора в движении», «Неизвестный постовой» и «Наезд со страховкой» – рассказывают о женщинах, которым машины нужны для бизнеса, развлечения и для служения ближнему своему…
guardia al palazzo dell'esposizione
Tina, an old lady and detective stories buff, moves to town in the house of a god-daughter of hers whose husband is a private dick. She thinks she will be able to help him with his inquests. He does not agree with her and tries to discourage her by any possible means.
Tina, an old lady, is in town for the wedding of her grandson when a medallion left to her by her late husband disappears. Dissatisfied with the police effort to find it, she sets on the tracks of the thieves herself.
