Roberto Seveso

В довольно непростой для семейного бюджета период конструктор Андреа Феррини, как назло, лишается работы, в то время как его жена, наоборот, получает повышение. Неудовлетворённость падением семейного авторитета заставляют инженера кардинально сменить имидж и место работы.

A young busker goes around in Milan with his saxophone, whereby he always plays the same tune and he experiences surrealistic adventures throughout the big city. Meanwhile, a wealthy woman from the local "jet set" falls in love with him.

Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Episode 1: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to knock off his mistress (in more ways than one). Episode 2: Della is convinced that aliens are on their way to consume the world and before long ends up a guinea pig on a spaceship from the planet Phobos. Episode 3: Roberto becomes a Bersaglieri in the Italian army and nearly causes a war between Italy and Switzerland over a packet of cigarettes.

At age 50, tax inspector Emerenziano decides to settle down and aims to the three Tettamanzi sisters, who, though not young or pretty by any means, have recently inherited a large amount of money.

У одинокого и разочаровавшегося в жизни Берзаги из Милана уже месяц как пропала умственно отсталая 25-летняя дочь. Полиция практически расписалась с собственном бессилии и прекратила ее поиски. Берзаги встречается с полицейским инспектором Ламберти и умоляет его найти его «маленькую девочку». Отчасти из жалости, отчасти из интереса Ламберти вместе с напарником берутся за это дело. Они считают, что дочь Берзаги похитили и отдали в проститутки…

Broadcast on RAI television in 1967, this charming featurette about a teenage boy’s first crush on a girl reveals director Ermanno Olmi’s love and respect for the dilemmas of everyday people, along with an early example of the kind of stylistic and narrative experimentation seen in his later work.

In Venice in 1943, a group of partisans led by Renato Braschi organize a series of autonomous terrorist attacks against the fascists while the National Liberation Committee urges caution. Renato is determined to carry out his ideas, risking his own life, and not only that...

A young man has a renewed interest in his girlfriend when he takes a job that separates the two.

Two middle-aged men work as caretakers on an isolated dam construction site high in the snow-capped Italian Alps. When one of them leaves for the valley to spend Christmas vacation with his family he is temporarily replaced with an adolescent boy. The other man is both annoyed and intrigued by the boy and his habits: he listens to loud music, sleeps too long in the mornings and doesn't drink any alcohol. They barely speak to one another in the first couple of days. But when an avalanche cuts their small hut from electricity they slowly start growing more fond of each other.