Ernesto Almirante

The Captain's Daughter

A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.

The White Sheik

In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan d...

Ergastolo

Rosa Lulli, has an illegitimate 20-year-old son, named Stefano, who lives with her in the house of Professor Ar...

To Live in Peace

An American prisoner, hidden by some Umbrian farmers, meets, drunk, with a German soldier who is also drunk. Th...

100 Years of Love

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Cés...

I'm in the Revue

Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgri...

Difficult Years

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he...

First Communion

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spend...

Cops and Robbers

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him....

Rome-Paris-Rome

Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginet...

Thrill

A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is murdered in...

The Firemen of Viggiù

In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all th...

Toto and the Kings of Rome

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.

Destinazione Piovarolo

Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he m...

Lo scocciatore

A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door,...

Ore 10: lezione di canto

The Adventuress from the Floor Above

A comedy in which a young lawyer, with a very jealous wife, ends up hosting a woman from his building for a nig...

La notte delle beffe

A Romantic Adventure

At the end of the 19th century, a middle-class woman explains why she cannot get along with her husband, a good...

In cerca di felicità

Two young people fall in love and run away from home. They soon run out of money and he, who has a decent voice...

Destiny Unknown

Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are...

The White Line

Following World War II, the Allies designate that an unidentified town in the Trieste area as being partly Yugo...

Il coraggio

A wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the responsibility...

Il nostro prossimo

Quel fantasma di mio marito

Gianni Alberti is a journalist who is sent to Palestine. He decides to fake a fatal accident so he can then ret...

Ai vostri ordini, signora...

The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the s...

Campane a martello

Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest...

Angelina

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor peo...

Margherita fra i tre

Giorno di nozze

A daughter discovers her parents are far from being the rich bourgeois she thought they were.

Gli assi della risata

An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life.

Piccolo alpino

Imputato, alzatevi!

Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.

La mia canzone al vento

A Hundred Thousand Dollars

On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.

The Testimony

A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant m...