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- An Italian gentleman and a doctor's wife plot to break up their spouses' tryst in Paris.
- Traces the legendary author's life, from the images and memories of his early boyhood, to his tragic suicide at 62. We first meet Hemingway as a young boy dominated by the virile figure of his father, a doctor devoted to hunting and fishing. Hemingway next appears as an 18-year-old ambulance driver during World War I who is wounded on the frontline of Piave. In the hospital, he meets and falls in love with a young Red Cross nurse who later becomes the model for his heroine in " A Farewell to Arms", a fictionalizes account of his experience as a young soldier coming to grips with the horrors of war. Hemingway becomes a foreign correspondent and travels to France, Italy, and Spain, but soon abandons his journalistic career and settles in Paris to write novels and short stories. Interspersed throughout the story are Hemingway's encounters with an enigmatic woman of indeterminate age who becomes his closest confidant. She is the personification of death's shadow and follows him throughout his life. In the end, she finds him in a clinic as a disillusioned old man wasted by anxiety and depression. Shortly after, Ernest Hemingway takes his life with a shotgun.
- The internationally renowned string quartet had been performing together for most of their adult lives when their lead violinist suddenly died, leaving the remaining three confused about their lives and careers.
- Four buddies battle the elements and one another when they become stranded in bad weather.
- The story, released the first time in 1929, tells the story of a girl, Edda Marty, who enters (the only woman) to be part of a class of boys, to attend the last year of high school, 8th gymnasium in Trieste. Edda is a wild child, free and non-conformist, in contrast to his provincial family environment and a bit 'narrow-minded. Despite his efforts to establish a friendly relationship with her companions, its presence provokes disturbances, falling in love, a suicide attempt. Male protagonist is George Antero, with whom Edda will live a tender story of teenage love. The intervention of the possessive and selfish mother of Antero, that will ask to Edda to not accept the boy's love, and subsequent misunderstandings between the two lovers (also a result of the attempted suicide of another comrade, always for love Edda), will put an end to the history between the two protagonists. After the exams, the boys find themselves in a farewell dinner tinged with melancholy and sad omens for signs of an impending war. Dinner, in fact, held June 28, 1914, day of the tragic attack in Sarajevo, universally known as the fuse that sparked the huge fire of the Great War. In the film directed by Franco Giraldi, the story is set in 1913, while the story takes place in 1910, when Trieste enrollment in public school is also open to girls.
- Professor Foster, invited to Paris for a lecture on Lord Byron's diary, following a magnificent discovery sees his life bound up with the discovery of the sign of command, an artifact that confers immortality on its rightful possessor.
- The commander of a pirate ship decides to retire to private life and return to his country of origin. But for the impossibility to resign himself to an ordinary life, he will launch himself in a last heroic gesture.
- Albert (Michael York), a distinguished art dealer lives in New York City. One day by chance, he visits a photo exhibit titled "Bistrot de Paris" by Carol Labronsky (Florinda Bolkan). In an old photo of two young lovers kissing while seated at a Bistro, Albert recognizes his first love, Rose (Charlotte Valandrey), the girl he fell madly in love with during his stay in Paris in 1959, and had disappeared after leaving him. In that photograph Rose is wearing a sweater which Albert gave her, proof that the photo was taken after she had met him. Tormented by memories, AIbert feels a burning need to find out whet became of her. He leaves for Paris. To resolve the mystery. To assist in the search, he enlists the help of his friend, Jean (Bernard Fresson) the boy who he fought for Rose's love. To begin their search, their only due is an enlargement of the photograph of the couple kissing. From the small details of the photograph, Albert finally finds the identity of the boy kissing Rose in the photograph. He goes to meet him and the man recounts his last days with Rose, had told him that someone was stalking her. From the conversation, Albert intuitively feels that the stalker must be his friend, Jean. Among the photographs which Mrs. Labronsky had given him, Albert finds in the background of a photo, Jean's face while he tries to be inconspicuous. When Albert confronts him, Jean confesses that he had kidnapped Rose in order to have her, and in desperation he had killed her and hidden her body.
- Pierfrancesco (Enzo Iacchetti) is a perpetually unemployed actor who is going to yet another audition instead finds himself having to butler five women living in a luxurious mansion. Depending on their needs, it is improvised so confidant, adviser, and then the victim of their neuroses.