Gioia Spaziani

Rocco, a lonely boy who almost eighteen, wants to move to the capital to realize his greatest dream: to become a dancer, but the reality that awaits him will not be what he hoped for and his dream will once again be put to the test.

Действие фильма происходит в Вигате в 1880 году. Главный герой - фармацевт скромного происхождения Альфонсо Фофо Ла Матина. Вскоре после его прибытия в город с семьей маркиза Пелусо, местного богатого дворянина, происходит несколько трагедий. Отец-инвалид маркиза совершает самоубийство, бросаясь в море. Сын Рико умирает, предположительно от отравления грибами. Жена, которая консультировалась с Фофо, поскольку подозревала, что на самом деле Рико был убит, умирает несколько недель спустя. Сезон охоты открывается и неизвестно, к каким последствиям он приведёт.

The movie is a biopic about Mia Martini, an italian singer who died in 1995.

A well known judge comes back to his native region, Salentino in the South of Italy, to find out that his old friend is dead and the woman he loved is now working for a crime organization.

Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.

As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home, he becomes increasingly aware that the Mafia has taken hold of his village, witnessing angry and frustrated as gangsters control local politics and take whatever they want from the people. Placido helps to form a trade union as a challenge to the Mafia's authority, and attempts to organize the villagers into a collective to grow crops in the fields taken by the Mafia.