Vitaliano Brancati

Catania, Italy. The Platania family hires a new French governess, the beautiful Caterina. The life of the whole family will be soon turned upside down.

From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is on his deathbed, Paolo learns of syphilis in the family and something of the curse of dissolution. Some years later, he resolves to marry Katrina, the pure daughter of the woman he should have married. He wants her purity to redeem him so he can make something of his life. But is it too late?

Giovanni Percolla lives in Catania surrounded by the attentive cares of his three sisters. He permanently acts like a Don Giovanni to hide his real poor "knowledge" of women. With his friend he moves also to Rome but women still continues to remain part of his fantasies. But Giovanni succeeded to build anyway a fame of "tombeur de femmes". One day he meets the real love of Maria Antonietta and decides to marry. Will things change?

Женщины любят красавчика Антонио, считая его идеальным любовником. Но у него есть проблемы с соответствием этому идеалу, о которых Барбара узнаёт после замужества. Она посвящает в это весь городок и все начинают над ним насмехаться…

Француз инженер-строитель Робер (Робер Ламуре) решает провести отпуск в кемпинге на Сицилии, куда несколько раньше уехала порядком уже надоевшая ему любовница. По дороге, в поезде, он знакомится с девушкой, итальянкой по происхождению, Терезой (Лючия Бозе) и пускает в ход все свое обаяние, чтобы добиться ее любви. Это ему удается, но не сразу.

История начинается в двадцатых годах на Сицилии. Секретарь мэра Катании Розарио Шимони любит две вещи в жизни: женщин и деньги. Этот беспринципный и обаятельный человек хочет любым способом преуспеть в жизни и для достижения своих целей становится то коммунистом, то фашистом, выгодно женится, затевает аферы с кино и недвижимостью...

История начинается в двадцатых годах на Сицилии. Секретарь мэра Катании Розарио Шимони любит две вещи в жизни: женщин и деньги. Этот беспринципный и обаятельный человек хочет любым способом преуспеть в жизни и для достижения своих целей становится то коммунистом, то фашистом, выгодно женится, затевает аферы с кино и недвижимостью...

Богатая английская пара приезжает в Италию, чтобы получить наследство, виллу на Неополитанском заливе, и проводит несколько дней в этом прекрасном месте. Однако отношения супругов находятся на грани разрыва...

Богатая английская пара приезжает в Италию, чтобы получить наследство, виллу на Неополитанском заливе, и проводит несколько дней в этом прекрасном месте. Однако отношения супругов находятся на грани разрыва...

A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.

Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.

While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.

While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.

Just before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a party is held in the castle of the Stettin's Counts.

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

Жулик и воришка обманул жадного и наивного американца. Комиссар дает сержанту Боттони, отслужившему уже 30 лет, последний шанс остаться на работе, получить, наконец, повышение и не сесть в тюрьму за то, что он упустил этого самого «жулика и воришку»: сержант должен поймать вора, ему (сержанту) отводится на это три месяца.

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.

Venice Film Festival 1942