9 Movies Directed by Alberto Lattuada

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Ernesto ritorna dalla prigionia in Germania, alla fine della Seconda Guerra mondiale. E' solo, la casa distrutta, la mamma morta, la sorella scomparsa. La ritrova in un bordello, durante la colluttazione che nasce con lo sfruttatore la ragazza rimane uccisa e l'uomo viene spinto da Ernesto nella tromba delle scale. Ferito e inseguito dalla polizia si rifugia in casa di una prostituta che è a capo di una banda di rapinatori. Diventa amante della donna e capo della banda, ma il ricavato delle imprese lo elargisce in atti benefici che i compagni disapprovano. Un giorno, mentre con assalta una macchina con i complici, Ernesto viene denunciato alla polizia dalla stessa prostituta che vuole vendicarsi di una offesa subita. Potrebbe salvarsi, ma rinuncia a mettersi in salvo per portare a casa la bambina di un suo ex compagno che si trovava nella macchina assalita. Non rispondendo all'alt intimatogli dagli agenti, viene colpito a morte dagli stessi.

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When a young woman of beauty and talent joins a provincial vaudeville troupe, they're suddenly playing to packed houses, and their aging comic Checco Dalmonte gets big ideas. He falls in love with the ingenue, Liliana, and ignores his companion of several years, Melina Amour. (She wants to marry Checco and she's saving to open a deli.) Also, believing he can be an impresario, he hires other actors and begins rehearsal for a revue that will star Liliana and himself. Liliana admires Checco, but she's being squired around town by Adelmo Conti, the assistant to the region's biggest impresario. Can Checco's new troupe hold onto Liliana, and how will Melina fare?

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Based on Nikolai Gogol's story with the location changed from Russia to Italy and the time changed to the present (1952), the story is about a poor city-hall clerk (Renato Rascel) whose only desire is for a new overcoat. The town Mayor (Giulio Stival) is planning a reception for some visiting VIP's in honor of a new, wasteful piece of construction. The clerk bungles his assignment and is fired. But he stumbles onto some bribery concerning the architects and, to keep him quiet, he's given his job back plus a bonus. He buys his long-cherished overcoat, and it makes him so presentable he wins newly-found respect from everybody. But his coat is stolen and the bitter weather causes him to contact a fever and he dies. His funeral upsets the Mayor's reception when he returns as a ghost.

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Antonio is a jolly and precise guy working for an auto factory in northern Italy. He decides to take his wife and two daughters on vacation to Sicily, so that they can finally see his hometown and meet his family. He's excited to show them around and dispel many of their negative stereotypes about Sicilians. He even dispels stereotypes about the mafia, saying that being a mafioso as a teen amounted to just being a messenger boy. But as Antonio reconnects with his past in Sicily, he finds out that there are more sides to being a Sicilian than he remembers.

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