Flavio Calzavara

In a theatre in Rome, Aldo Fabrizi entertains an audience with a series of anti-English anecdotes and jokes based on an unpleasant experience with two British tourists when he was a poor cabman. This small propaganda film by Cines is part of a triptych commissioned by the Fascist government on the eve of its declaration of war with England and was never distributed. It is an extraordinary document because it was Fabrizi’s first screen appearance – although 1942 is the year associated with his debut in Avanti c’è posto… by Mario Bonnard, also produced by Giuseppe Amato for Cines – and was a precursor of his unforgettable cabman role three years later in L’ultima carrozzella (The Last Wagon) by Mario Mattòli, which Fabrizi himself wrote with Federico Fellini.

The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind.

The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind.

Napoleon's uncle, a parish priest in a small mountain village, is offered the position of cardinal by the emperor. As soon as the news spreads, some people rush to exploit it to their advantage. But the prelate prefers to continue living among his faithful.

During the Ethiopian war, thirteen boys embark clandestinely on a merchant ship bound for Africa. Following the shipwreck, they are castaway on a desert island...

During the Ethiopian war, thirteen boys embark clandestinely on a merchant ship bound for Africa. Following the shipwreck, they are castaway on a desert island...

In 1893, on an island in the Strait of Sicily, a woman is beginning to go crazy due to an officer that she loved leaving. When she believes a newly arrived official to be the man that left her, he plays along.

A blind girl and a disabled singer fall in love.

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

A blind girl and a disabled singer fall in love.

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

A young bourgeois who launders money for the mafia gets accused of murder.

A married woman is startled by the return of her former fiancé, whom she thought was killed during the war.

A war veteran visits the families of soldiers who died during the war.

An elderly lady, who has lost her only son in the war, turns her house into a pension. It is also the custody of a mysterious document that his son entrusted to him, and which is coveted by many people .

A young bourgeois who launders money for the mafia gets accused of murder.