Luca De Filippo

Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island-prison. The theatre turns into a free zone where everyone may not be able to recover their social role but for sure their humanity. Somebody can even get love back. Shakespeare and Eduardo De Filippo blend together in a picaresque comedy full of coup de théâtre.

Главная героиня, итальянка Джемма, отправляется вместе со своим 16-летним сыном Пьетро в Сараево. Она хочет показать Пьетро его родной город и рассказать о его отце Диего, которого он никогда не знал. В аэропорту Джему встречает ее давний друг и Гойко, который в 1984 году во время зимней Олимпиады познакомил ее с фотографом из Генуи Диего — любовью всей ее жизни.

Teenage problems intertwine during the occupation of a high school in Rome. Silvio – much like his peers desperate to lose his virginity – wants to make his move on the girl he likes, despite her being already his friend's girlfriend, not knowing that her best friend harbors feelings for him – while clashing also with his parents, former 1968 protesters who look down on the kids' aimless political commitment.

В конце недели, когда супруги получают передышку от своих повседневных забот, они остаются один на один со своими эмоциональными проблемами, решение которых откладывалось всю неделю и ошибочно приписывалось к числу неприоритетных задач. Но вот Пеппино начинает бояться, что жена его разлюбила, а жизнь проходит мимо в суете небольшого городка. Роза, его супруга, страдает от упреков мужа и тоже не чувствует любви от него. Обычная семейная пара, обычные для кризиса среднего возраста проблемы, но это только иллюзия при взгляде со стороны.

Gennareniello, a crazy inventor, is married to Concettina and lives at home with his son Tommasino, full of tics, his spinster sister and with Matteo, a drawing master who makes plans for his inventions. Driven by his friends, the man courts the young teacher Anna and when his wife notices it, he is forced to run away from home, overwhelmed by the scorn of derision of friends and acquaintances who come to disguise him as a dandy, thus offending his dignity.

The comedy, centered on five characters (Rita, Rodolfo, Agostino, Bettina, and Don Attilio - "o viecchio pazzo"-), has as background the Italy of the 60s between the economic boom and the perennial unemployment crisis. The cylinder, well explained by "Agostino-Eduardo" in the comedy, is a representation of power, designed to intimidate the ignorant for its only evocative "power". It can also be seen as a sort of "Pirandellian mask", where the character of Augustine wears it to defend himself and represent something that he is not.

Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently.

Thanks to the legacy of an English lord, the cobbler Andrea has become a baron and now has delusions of nobility: he wants a high-ranking marriage for his stepdaughter Virginia and does not recognize the brothers of his wife, Rosina and Michele, even after the latter has saved the his house from a fire. Virginia does not like her promised Marchese Alberto, but Felice Sciosciammocca, a shy and poor master of calligraphy, who reciprocates her. But when Felice learns that the girl will soon marry another, out of spite he accepts the court of the late Marquise Zoccola, Alberto's mother.

Happy Sciosciammocca has a double life: he plays sacred music in the convent of Rondinelle and teaches music to the educators, at night he goes to Naples where he is known as the actor.