Paolo Stoppa

Rome, Year of our Lord 1809. The Pope Pius VII with his cardinals and ministers manages both temporal and spiritual power of the Papal States in Italy. The Marquis Onofrio del Grillo is one of his favorites, but even the worst of all the nobility. He's a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes.

The inhabitants of a very poor section of Milan are threatened with eviction.

Based on the acclaimed novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard chronicles the fortunes of Prince Fabrizio Salina and his family during the unification of Italy in the 1860s.

A railway magnate hires a ruthless killer to murder a family whose farm is on the rail route, but reckons without the subsequent arrival of the farmer's young widow and a mysterious stranger intent on tracking down the killer.