Luigi Comencini — Playwright (10)

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Guaglio (1948)
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other title: Proibito rubare / Hey Boy …
On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While trying to retrieve his baggage he realizes how miserable the city of Naples is. Then he decides that his mission is there in Naples, He creates his 'The Boys' Town' a shelter for poor kids, aka the 'scugnizzi' (street urchins), with a view to putting them back on the right track. Some of the kids, though, do not play by the rules just using that 'home' as a convenient place for hiding the product of their thefts...

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Marcellino (1991)
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other title: 마르셀리노의 기적 / Marcelino pan y vino …
In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.

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Traffic Jam (1979)
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other title: 塞车奇事 / L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile …
A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion.

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Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)
Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso! Douban
other title: 上帝,我怎么掉了下来! / Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso!
修女们抚养的孤儿侯爵尤金妮娅·迪·马奎达(Eugenia Di Maqueda)娶了雷蒙多·考罗(Raimondo Corrao),但在他们新婚之夜,她发现他是她的兄弟。这则消息来自于他们的父亲从巴黎写来的一封信,他是一位住在法国总部的妇女,并对他们躲藏起来。为了避免这桩丑闻,这对夫妇决定以兄妹的身份生活。他以后会离开去参加在利比亚的战争,她会在家庭司机的臂弯里找到慰藉和性满足。