Carlo Sposito
1924 - 1984Anni difficili
Luigi Zampa
Massimo Girotti, Umberto Spadaro
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
Difficult Years
Complexes
Franco Rossi, Dino Risi
Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
Complexes
Il bivio
Fernando Cerchio
Raf Vallone, Charles Vanel
After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to became a policeman to help better his men in crime. He meets Giovanna and falls for her. But he begins liking his new job and after their first robbery, Aldo tries to leave his old accomplices...
Il bivio
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Alessandro Blasetti
Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Le sorprese dell'amore
Luigi Comencini
Walter Chiari, Anna Maria Ferrero
This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of the human compulsion to pair up. - timlin-4
The Surprises of Love
Una bruna indiavolata!
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Silvana Pampanini, Ugo Tognazzi
Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
Una bruna indiavolata!
I Tre Ladri
Lionello De Felice
Totò, Giovanna Ralli
Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.
I tre ladri
Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera
Giovanni Grimaldi
Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia
A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is only interested in his title and plans a divorce, but after a while she also grows fond of him.
Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera
Don Giovanni in Sicilia
Alberto Lattuada
Lando Buzzanca, Katia Moguy
Giovanni Percolla lives in Catania surrounded by the attentive cares of his three sisters. He permanently acts like a Don Giovanni to hide his real poor "knowledge" of women. With his friend he moves also to Rome but women still continues to remain part of his fantasies. But Giovanni succeeded to build anyway a fame of "tombeur de femmes". One day he meets the real love of Maria Antonietta and decides to marry. Will things change?
Don Juan in Sicily
La prima notte del dottor Danieli, industriale, col complesso del... giocattolo
Giovanni Grimaldi
Lando Buzzanca, Katia Christine
Carlo Danieli, an industrialist of Sicilian origins, manages a French fries company. The man marries Elena, his girlfriend for years, who has decided to remain a virgin until the wedding day. The man is a great womanizer and is surprised by the revelation, so much so that on the first night he is unable to consummate the relationship. The word soon spread and the mother of the bride, Donna Virginia, urged her son-in-law to apply. Carlo then tries to find a solution before it's too late and his mother-in-law thinks that throwing him into the arms of a professional is the ideal ploy.
The Lovemakers
Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio
Riccardo Freda
Gianna Maria Canale, Georges Marchal
Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict erupt in both Byzantium and Rome.
Theodora, Slave Empress
