Reporter
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Dario
England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the beautiful countess Koefeld, wife of the Danish ambassador, to the consternation of his friend, the Prince of Wales. He is also hounded by Anna Damby, who wants to become an actress to escape a marriage to Lord Mewill.
Caporedettore
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.
Journalist (uncredited)
A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.
Il capostazione uscente
Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career ambitions but can not reach them.
Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble..
US Embassy Secretary
Нандо Мерикони с детства одержим мечтой - уехать в Америку. Подражая американскому образу жизни, он одевается как американский шериф, говорит на английском языке (не всегда понятным окружающим), вместо спагетти ест кукурузные хлопья с кетчупом, и всё время попадает в нелепые ситуации.
Carletto
Massimo pretends to be rich but he's actually poor.
amico del conte
A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, where he is to deliver a symbolic dove of peace to a group of WW II freedom fighters. Somehow, Boris winds up in Venice minus the dove. As he searches up street and down canal for the missing bird, he meets and falls in love with luscious flower-girl Maria.
The Photographer
A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others.
presentatore
Антонио Скапарро одержим из-за женщин. Он изобретает свой собственный способ укрыться от них, на чердаке собственного дома, где он может делать то, что жена запрещает ему: шаркать по полу, читать ночью детективы, бросать окурки и стряхивать пепел на пол. Там он рассказывает зрителю историю своих взаимоотношений с женщинами — женой, дочерью и другими.
quarto testimone
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
L'Assessore
A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.
Gianetto
Франческа и Вальтер - преступники из Северной Италии. Чтобы избежать ареста, Франческа присоединяется к группе крестьян, собирающих рис. Вальтер следует за ней в рисовые районы и вскоре вовлекает крестьян в сложный заговор, включающий грабёж, любовь и даже убийство.
Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and marry will prove to be anything but easy.
The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening program in which the products of his company are advertised.
L'esattore
Notaio Paglieri
The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.
