- In her later years, the manager of the estate for Countess Di Bard defrauds her, and she is forced to live in the garret of her palace. She accepts her unfortunate situation, until the daughter of the Marquis, who occupies the palace, falls in love with a young engineer, whom the Countess claims is the lost son of her …
- A baron, with the complicity of a starlet, organizes the theft of the cash wagon on a train, keeping the conductor and travelers at bay, a sample of various humanity: an honorable with the divorced secretary, a psychiatrist with a patient under treatment, two newlyweds on their honeymoon, a trendy singer with the assis…
- The film depicts the rise to power of Alcide de Gasperi and the Christian Democratic Party in post war Italy and ends with de Gasperi's retirement in 1954.It is both a personal film (Rossellini makes no secret of his admiration for de Gasperi) whilst at the same time it does not lose sight of the historical context (de…