Italian melodrama
A kind of Italian Robin Hood leads a fight against a tyrant and his henchmen.
A Man in the Mud (uncredited)
Фильм — парафраз виртуозности и поэтичности творческого процесса режиссера: кризис, поиск, каверзы воображения, тупики, интеллектуальный климат, неразрывный поток субъективного и объективного.И, конечно, обилие женщин, окружающих героя, его иллюзорный гарем, в котором все без исключения любят его, хотя идиллия перемежается с бунтом, подавлять который приходится с помощью хлыста.
Ciabatta "trovarobe" dei costumi
Ночной сторож банка по имени Орацио, опоздав на работу, выясняет, что банк ограблен. Дабы не остаться без работы, он решает найти и возвратить украденное.
Francesco
A family from the province goes to CinecittÃ, hoping that their daughter will be assigned a part in the blockbuster Nero 71 .
The Old Shepherd
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
L'autista
Действие происходит в Италии во время Второй мировой войны, большей частью в оккупированном фашистами Риме. Девушка, выдающая себя за монахиню, скрывает троих военнопленных, сбежавших из концлагеря: американского офицера, британского летчика и русского танкиста
Mario's Uncle (uncredited)
Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.
Uncle Carlo
Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.
Gaetano
The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen from the point of view of the women the boxers love. One of the pugilists is a rookie on the rise and his sister has married the reigning champion. Now the champ is getting older and less able to hold his own against the newcomers -- including his brother-in-law. As his fortunes begin to decline, his wife whom he married while affluent is slowly forced to deal with the difficulties of poverty. This Italian drama was an entry in the 1959 Berlin Film Festival.
Marcello is engaged to Gina, the daughter of the boarding house where he lives, but he is undecided whether to marry her or not.
Nazzareno
Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.
An unemployed young man has a relationship with the mistress of a rich industrialist. In order to escape her protector, he decides to commit a robbery in the company of a friend...
il carpentiere
Император Нерон большой любитель музыки и песен,хочет посвятить себя искусству и заботиться о красивой молодой жене.Но амбициозная Агриппина толкает своего сына Нерона к возобновлению войны в Британии.Справиться со всем этим помогает Нерону Сенека.
Jeweler
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.
Padre di Anita
Waiter
Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman.
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..
Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler.
Caronte
After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
Gigetto
A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.
Retired social worker "Petrucci" goes to live with a baker and his family with whom he soon becomes fond. When a film producer arrives and attempts to lure the young "Gina" it falls to the ailing old man to save her from temptation.
La guardia notturna
Когда молодая и привлекательная Лина, воровка, как и все члены ее семьи, решает обокрасть таксиста Паоло, она даже не подозревает, что это раз и навсегда изменит ее жизнь.
Father of Nando
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.
Pietro Cafalla, nonno di Angela
Двое влюбленных: Паскуале и Анжела уже несколько лет хотят пожениться. Но для того, чтобы сыграть свадьбу, нужны немалые деньги, а их просто нет. Паскуале решает пойти на уловку. Влюбленные решают инсценировать свой побег из деревни с целью тайного венчания, после которого свадьбу ненадо будет играть. И деньги будут целы — и влюбленные довольны. Семьи соглашаются на эту аферу. Но жизнь вносит свои коррективы и не все проходит так гладко.
Commissario
Il padrone di casa
After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.
The Grandfather
An unworthy nephew, with the help of a girl who seduces the young guardian, robs the aunt of the family jewels. He also manages to put the blame for the theft on the caretaker, engaged to a young woman who is actually the woman's natural daughter. The thief also tries to blackmail his aunt by threatening to reveal the truth after so many years, but a commissioner manages to prove the innocence of the suspect and the guilt of his nephew.
Vittoriano
Augusto Mencacci
Четыре истории, рассматриваемые в суде в течение одного дня…
Rospo
Impiegato Biblioteca Nazionale
In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.
Calì
Марио Иллари арестовывают по подозрению в убийстве беременной девушки. Машина, в которой перевозят арестованного, попадает в аварию, и, воспользовавшись суматохой, Марио сбегает. На поиски беглеца брошена вся полиция города, и, наконец, ей удается окружить Марио в недостроенном здании, с крыши которого загнанный парень уже собирается броситься вниз, но его останавливает влюбленная в него Джина...
Dupont
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.
Giulio Cantagalli
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.
Segretario comunale
un sonatore di tromba
An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.
Il sarto
Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
The Beggar
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.
Magician Edison Will
История о провинциальной труппе, кочующей по итальянским местечкам и кое-как перебивающейся с хлеба на воду.
Smarazzacucco
In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her fiancé’s relatives. Peasant unrest, carried to extremes by both workers and landowners, leads to violence and tragedy.
The curious Neapolitan
Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.
