Marcella Mariani

Mai ti scorderò

Giuseppe Guarino

Paolo Carlini, Jacqueline Collard

A humble country girl is cast in a film and falls in love with the famous lead actor.

Senso

Luchino Visconti

Alida Valli, Farley Granger

A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.

Le ragazze di San Frediano

Valerio Zurlini

Rossana Podestà, Giovanna Ralli

Andrea, a young and charming florentine mechanic in the 1950s, romances five beautiful women simultaneously, enjoying life without really committing to anyone, but in the end who wants to grasp all lose all.

Villa Borghese

Gianni Franciolini

Eduardo De Filippo, Vittorio De Sica

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.

Canzoni, canzoni, canzoni

Domenico Paolella

Alberto Sordi, Silvana Pampanini

Il cantante misterioso

Marino Girolami

Luciano Taioli, Marcella Mariani

A man escapes from prison but he is seriously wounded and eventually becomes paralyzed. He receives help from a fisherman and his family.

Donne e soldati

Luigi Malerba, Antonio Marchi

Marcella Mariani, Sandro Somarè

Donne e soldati was an example of a ‘decentralised’ production, far from Rome, something that for the most part Italian cinema didn’t fully succeed in achieving until the 1990s. . In many ways the film, which is both Picaresque and anti-heroic, was too far ahead of its time, and it is often considered the precursor to Monicelli’s L’armata brancaleone. This time out, Ferreri takes the reins as producer of the ill-fated undertaking (the two directors will never make another film); however, Donne e soldati, apart from marking Ferreri’s estrangement from Italian cinema for a number of years, today appears to display earthy and carnivalesque elements that will subsequently influence certain aspects of the Milanese director’s vision.