Vittorio Caprioli

François Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. In his book, he is Bob Saint Clar, his neighbour Christine appears as Tatiana and his editor Georges Charon as Colonel Karpoff.

Roberto Rossellini’s Golden Lion winner at Venice 1959 is a moving wartime masterpiece. Vittorio De Sica plays a small-time conman imprisoned by the Nazis and coerced into impersonating a resistance hero. As he gains the trust of fellow prisoners, deception gives way to conviction. Based on real events, it’s a stirring reflection on identity, courage, and redemption under fascist rule.

An episodic comedy directed by Mauro Bolognini, with Sandra Milo in the cast. In the first episode, Una donna dolce dolce, a lady who would like to have children decides to treat her husband like a child to be brought up, throwing her maternal instincts at him. In the second, The White Whale, the dwarf Eros falls in love with the dwarf Luciana but has a big problem with his wife, the cannon woman.