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A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Times Gone By
After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and...
Sunflower
A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in...
Four Steps in the Clouds
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...
The Overcoat
A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama.
The Lady Without Camelias
Con gli occhi dell'occidente
Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
Singing Café
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...
The Mill on the Po
In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is...
La fuggitiva
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò,...
Miracle in Milan
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all...
The Teacher from Vigevano
The Mistress of Treves
Sicily, early 1900s. An impoverished prince settles into the house of a rich shipowner and becomes his counselor.
Sempre più difficile
Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will.
Piccolo mondo antico
Signorinette
A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
What a Woman!
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman...
A Brief Vacation
Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life...
L'ultimo amante
An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.
Toto and the Kings of Rome
Ha fatto 13
Se vincessi cento milioni
A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the...
Stasera niente di nuovo