Vittorina Benvenuti

In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.

A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.

Leo est un « traîne-la-faim » qui attend la fortune. Il se fait passer pour Tuns, le fils d'un magnat de l'industrie.

Enrico breaks up his marriage to Renata because he discovers that in the registry office she is already married to a certain Giulio, an inhabitant of a country town. The couple leaves in search of the mysterious Giulio who is about to marry Marcella, but her wedding also ends.

In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.

Carletto Po est un mineur qui a émigré en Argentine. L'homme a épousé une jeune italienne par procuration, Anna. Une fois de retour en Italie, il se présente à Turin pour enfin connaître sa femme, mais malheureusement il découvre qu'Anna est décédée en ne laissant que le petit-fils Paolo, d'une relation précédente, et qu'il est désormais légalement le fils de Carletto.

In Milan, an unwed mother, forced to flee from her town because of the scandal, meets a doctor who falls in love with her and marries her. But the couple's relationship breaks down almost immediately: the husband is unable to leave behind the woman's past and can not stand a son not his. So Dina, in an attempt to readjust the rapport, entrusts the child to the care of the mother of her seducer (meanwhile deceased). But the sacrifice is beyond her strength, and she's soon taken by the irresistible desire to get her child back: in damp and foggy night, on her way to the station...

Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.

Maddalena voudrait que sa petite fille fasse du cinéma. Mais celle-ci refuse que l'on se moque d'elle lors du bout d'essai...

Wrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart.