Margherita Bagni

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason.

"Antonio" leaves his family to live a prosperous life with Cristina. Her family live in a slum where their lives are complicated by young love and...

Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.

An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light...

Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The...

A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily...

A tale on the Italian upper class of the '60s and their ways to kill time.

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows...

While working as a restaurant singer to make ends meet, a young man is pushed to pursuing a musical career in spite of his girlfriend's disapproval.

A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, where he is to deliver a symbolic dove...

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she...

A good lady, taken by the fear of getting old, gives herself to the frivolities of worldly life.

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.

The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.