Gianni Puccini

The Seven Cervi Brothers

Gianni Puccini

Gian Maria Volonté, Don Backy

The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World War 2.

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre

Gianni Puccini

Gabriele Ferzetti, Dorian Gray

Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.

I cuori infranti

Gianni Puccini, Vittorio Caprioli

Aldo Giuffrè, Paola Quattrini

Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes.

Il marito

Fernando Palacios, Gianni Puccini

Alberto Sordi, Aurora Bautista

Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple. Alberto is also experiencing financial problems and hopes for the help of a rich widow who is however interested in his sexual favours. Naturally Elena puts obstacles in his way and everything goes wrong. Alberto decides to change job then and becomes a sweets sales representative. Disillusioned with marital life he also changes his attitude towards women: he tells every woman he meets he is single.

L'attico

Gianni Puccini

Daniela Rocca, Tomás Milián

Italian comedy.

Carmela è una bambola

Gianni Puccini

Nino Manfredi, Marisa Allasio

Carmela defies her father who wants her to marry Baron Prospero and sleepwalks every night to Toto's room.

L'impiegato

Gianni Puccini

Nino Manfredi, Eleonora Rossi Drago

Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world.

Parola di ladro

Gianni Puccini, Nanni Loy

Gabriele Ferzetti, Abbe Lane

Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry store of Gabriele Bertinori, and with this position he plans to rob the place.

Dove si spara di più

Gianni Puccini

Peter Lee Lawrence, Cristina Galbó

Two family clans have always been enemies; they spend their time hating and killing each other. The daughter of the Campos family and the son of the Mounter family fall in love, thus causing further hatred and deaths.

Io uccido, tu uccidi

Gianni Puccini

Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia

Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.

Il nemico di mia moglie

Gabriele Irwin Palmieri, Gianni Puccini

Marcello Mastroianni, Giovanna Ralli

Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time: that's why the young couple keeps arguing.

Amore in quattro dimensioni

Jacques Romain, Mino Guerrini

Franca Rame, Carlo Giuffrè

Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.

L'Idea Fissa

Mino Guerrini, Gianni Puccini

Sylva Koscina, Eleonora Rossi Drago

An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.

Le lit à deux places

Alvaro Mancori, Gianni Puccini

Michel Serrault, Darry Cowl

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Amore facile

Gianni Puccini

Eleonora Rossi Drago, Britt Semand

I soldi

Gianni Puccini

Enrico Maria Salerno, Sylva Koscina

Episodic comedy about the corrupting influence of money.