Franca Nuti

A young man wants to give an idealized image of himself and his family and so he introduces the girl he loves to two old actors who pretend to be his parents.

A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg

8 septembre 1943. L'Italie dépose les armes. Un commando de SS libère Mussolini emprisonné depuis juillet et l'amène dans le nord de l'Italie où il fonde La Repubblica Sociale qui continue la guerre aux côtés des Allemands. A Verceil, dans le Piémont, le jeune Marco Laudato s'engage dans les forces armées du nouvel état. Il n'a pas les idées très claires, mais il est animé par un patriotisme sincère. Il devient l'ami d'Elia, un compagnon d'armes plus âgé, qui le guide et le protège.Dès que les choses sérieuses commencent, Marco ouvre les yeux sur la réalité qui l'entoure et sur la guerre qu'il est en train de combattre. Blessé pendant une opération absurde, il connaît une brève parenthèse de calme à l'hôpital. Mais le retour dans son régiment est un véritable traumatisme. Elia a déserté, il a été capturé et il est fusillé.Une dernière bataille inutile contre les partisans et Marco se retrouve seul, au milieu des cadavres de ses compagnons. Il ne ressent plus qu'une grande lassitude.

John Gabriel Borkman, a former bank director, was imprisoned for fraud but believes he was wrongly convicted. He had invested clients' money in a major industrial venture but was reported by his friend Hinkel, who was in love with Borkman's former fiancée, Ella Rentheim. Borkman now lives on the first floor of the house, with his estranged wife, Gunhild, living on the ground floor. He occasionally receives visits from his friend Wilhelm Foldal, who supports Borkman's delusion that the bank will reinstate him. In his youth, Borkman betrayed his love for Ella by marrying her twin sister Gunhild to advance his career. After his conviction, Ella took care of their son Erhart and now wants him to live with her and take her name. Borkman agrees, but Gunhild refuses to let her sister take their son.