Maria Magdalena
Rossellini takes numerous liberties with the original source material, rearranging and omitting events at will, presenting everything in a highly undramatic fashion. The film begins in the time of the Old Testament, allowing Rossellini to present the story of Jesus in its ancient, historic context.
A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..
Юный Альдо - амбициозный рэкетир, который стремится выстроить свою карьеру в криминальном мире, начав с контрабанды сигарет и постепенно поднимаясь к высотам влияния и богатства среди преступников. Не довольствуясь своей скудной добычей - «маленькой рыбкой» в большом пруду гавани Неаполя - Альдо берёт всё больше и больше за свой «улов». На пути у него стоит его босс, дон Энрико , который и сам не дурак отнимать и делить. А выше дона Энрико стоят настоящие хозяева неаполитанской Каморры — те, кто молчит, наблюдает и решает, кому жить, а кому нет…
