Ugo Novello

China Is Near

A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.

Fists in the Pocket

A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.

Veneri in collegio

Two competing teams of paparazzi try to enter a college to get a picture of an Arab Prince's fiancée.

Veneri al sole

Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.

Queste pazze, pazze donne

Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female madness.

The Last Ones

Checo, the son of poor Friulian farmers, feels different from other boys because he is more intelligent, sensitive, and gifted with imagination. Others isolate and mock him, and give him the nickname of "Scarecrow," and Checo ends up identifying with that macabre bird. One day, exasperated, he decides to flee to Venice, with the dream of becoming a painter.

Gli italiani e le donne

A group of vignettes about men, mostly married, scheming to get women and the funny ways the schemes play out.

The Fury of Achilles

In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans.