Film Di Ettore Scola

Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.

Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges (Vittorio Gassman), Roman Prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane (Dame Joan Collins), an English girl he has met who accompanies him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He plans some hanky-panky on their various stops along the route, but Jane has other plans, as she is only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection. The car clears customs--as do the stolen million dollars she is smuggling. Sandro (Jacques Bergerac), her former boyfriend, is following them and plans to hijack the loot, leaving Jane empty-handed.

A leading devil comes to earth to prevent the marriage of a papal aristocrat and a daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

A pompous, adventure-seeking businessman journeys through Africa with a clumsy employee to find his own disappeared brother-in-law.

A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.

A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.

Rocco Papaleo, an optimistic and kind man from a mining town in Alaska, gets away from his company during a trip to Chicago and is increasingly disillusioned in the face of the city's hostility.

While pursuing a mysterious, motorcycle-riding beauty, a tax-dodging salesman winds up at a castle whose landlord invites him to participate in a mock trial, wherein he is accused of murder.

From Trevico in the province of Avellino, a young man arrives in Turin to work at Fiat. Once hired, he will face harsh experiences as an immigrant and a worker.

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

Four generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.

An episodic satire of the social and politic status of Italy in the 1970s through the programming of a television channel.

Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.

Several episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories.

During a dinner in a Roman terrace, the lives and experiences of multiple characters intertwine.

In the 1860s, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier, is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house there is a strange young woman: Fosca (d'Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

Dance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history.

A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades, only to discover that old friends have involved him in a massive hoax.

With the background of the XX century Italian history, Carlo, a retired teacher, traces the vicissitudes of his family.

Jordan, forced to close his movie theater due to financial problems, recalls the events, the characters and the films that marked his life.

The visit of a lawer to his military son is an opportunity to recall the past, discuss the future and find a meeting point between two diametrically opposite personalities.

En route to Paris, a group gets lost during a storm and seeks refuge in a castle owned by a ruined nobleman, who wants to join the group's trek to Paris.

In the wake of Eastern Socialism collapsing the Italian communists try to regroup and rename their party, causing a rift between married members Maria and Mario. Maria falls for another party member, also called Mario, who understands her.

Two neighbors, young Vincenzo and old Mr. Bartoloni, are utterly unhappy. On the one hand Vincenzo must lead a miserable and frustrating life as he cannot find any regular job, despite his Arts degree. On the other hand, Mr. Bartoloni is fed up with his despotic wife: the woman who used to be a beautiful artist is now a fat and shabby drunkard. The two men meet on a particularly sad night and, during an outburst Mr. Bartoloni asks Vincenzo to help him to get rid of his wife by simulating an accident with the promise of a considerable amount of money. At night Vincenzo can't sleep: Mr. Bartoloni wasn't joking and he is in a desperate need for money... One day, Mrs. Bartoloni is found dead for apparently accidental reasons. Walking up and down his now quiet and deserted flat, Mr. Bartoloni feels desperate. The money he kept hidden in a box has disappeared. His thoughts grow and become monsters ... finally he decides to denounce Vincenzo as the author of the crime. Vincenzo is arrested and taken to prison. There begins a confrontation between the young and the old man. Vincenzo declares he didn't kill the woman but seems too unmoved to be innocent. As for Mr. Bartoloni, the police finds out he had fallen in love with another woman and dreamt of getting married to her. The two men are both hopeless, desperate and lonely and are both suspected to be the author of the crime.