Enrico Ardizzone

A young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbon; he reconstructs the story of a scientist who discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead.

In the study of a lawyer, two young spouses tell their story. The singer Tony manages to reach the much coveted success, and can thus marry his girlfriend. But a clause in his record contract obliges him to remain a bachelor for two years.

During WWII, a fierce struggle for survival in the mountains between partisans and Fascists, in this pessimistic portrait of combat.

Set between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Zeno Cosini, a wealthy Trieste merchant, neurotic and smoker, is marked by a conflictual relationship with his father and a chronic sense of inadequacy that drives him to seek help from psychoanalyst Dr. S.