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- The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear - the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the grublike fat of the appeasers and oppressors. In a bitter struggle of the individual against the collective, three people stand forth with the mark of the unconquered in their bearing: Kira, who wants to be a builder, and the two men who love her - Leo, an aristocrat, and Andrei, a Communist. In their tensely dramatic story, Ayn Rand shows what the theories of Communism mean in practice. We the Living is not a story of politics but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what dictatorship - of any kind - does to human beings, what kind of men are able to survive, and which of them remain as the ultimate winners. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb? Who are the winners in this conflict? Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand offers an answer that challenges the modern conscience.
- An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school: the happy moments, the sad ones and the tragic love for a Garibaldian.
- 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 troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
- A young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece. He falls in love with a doctor's daughter and manages to escape during a bombardment. He reaches home, wounded, just as news arrives of the Greek surrender.
- Cesare is a ticket collector on a bus who is competing with the driver, Bruno, for the love of Rosella, a naïve waitress who's been mugged on the bus.
- This is an opera in four acts composed by Umberto Giordano . The story is set in Florence at the time of Lorenzo de'Medici recounts the rivalry between Gianneto Malespini and Neri Chiaramantesi for the affections of the beautiful Ginerva and Gianneto's thirst for revenge over a "cruel joke" played on him by Neri and his brother Gabreillo. The joke ultimately takes Neri to murder Ginerva and by mistake his brother. The opera ends with Neri descent into madness.
- Remake of the 1933 film: In a small Tuscan mountain town, there is gossip when the schoolmistress goes out at night, that she is having a romantic rendezvous somewhere.
- A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
- The public and private life of Eugenio Pacelli, elected Pope Pius XII.
- A sweet young woman who's an orphan is enamored with fairy tales and fantasizes that she's really a princess to help her through her life in the orphanage.
- The well off daughter of a tenor breaks up a romance with a helpful youth from a misunderstanding.But she continues to cover him with his gambling debts despite her delicate health.
- A young man of high-bourgeois family loses his head for a woman with a stormy past. A family friend, a lawyer, intrudes to separate the two and after his intervention the woman is found killed.
- After having been captured in Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira.
- This first Italian-made feature film released in the United States following WWII relates the story of Russian Princess Fedora (Louise Ferida), in Czarist times, whose royal lover is assassinated on the eve of their marriage. She pledges vengeance, only to become the victim of her vow when she falls in love again.
- Cesare, a long-distance fuel tanker driver, separates from his lonely young wife after they argue. This leaves him angry and taciturn. One day he meets Piera and he falls in love again. But after a while Piera too complains.
- The fate of several men in a Libyan city briefly captured from Italy by the invading British in 1941, includes a focus on the role of women during these hard times.
- Eleonora, daughter of the governor of Venice, dresses as a warrior to defend the last fortress on the island of Cyprus from the Turkish siege. Both her troops and her enemies know him as Captain Storm.
- Poggioli's masterpiece, a precursor to Neorealism, was shot on location in Genoa and tells the story of a 'humiliated and mistreated' maid, who sacrifices herself to save a child. The mainstream flirts with anti-bourgeoisie sentiments. "The dance hall scene is strikingly beautiful". (G. Buttafava)
- When two men (Vittorio de Sica and Paolo Stoppa) trade identities in this thoroughly enjoyable farce, they are forced to maintain the charade much longer than they initially intended and end up in situations neither could have imagined.