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Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
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When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.
A bizarre mechanic tells a traveler the story of a bank employee, Peppino Biancaneve, who with the help of a disc is trying to put together the words he would like to use to ask for the hand of the daughter of the jeweler Carlo Casertoni, but while he mulls over the sentences he should pronounce to his future father-in-law he comes across a strange individual who could be a bringer of bad luck: a jettatore.
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
This documentary aims to pay tribute to the Allied forces, both English and American, who liberated Rome. Germi’s participation inMontecassino, which occurred around the same time, may have influenced this project. Alternatively, it could be seen as an expression of gratitude towards the Allies, celebrating the historical and cultural bond that had united English and American intellectuals with the Eternal City since the 18th century.
