Set during WWII, the film is a drama of the Italian resistance, with all the usual clichéd characters in attendance. The central character, a bombed-out gamine who falls in love with an Italian partisan, is played by Lucia Bose, who earned a great deal of praise for her performance. Most of the film deals with the culture-clash between the citified resistance fighters and their rural hosts.(Here）

cripted by Eriprando Visconti, nephew of Lucino Visconti, Gli Sbandati transports its viewers to a provincial Italian town on the verge of a massive socio-political transformation. The year is 1943, a few days after the Italian government has accepted Eisenhower's armistice proposal. Lucia (Lucia Bose), a poor girl who has fallen in love with the wealthy looker Andrea (Jean-Pierre Mocky), is torn between helping a group of Italian soldiers on the run and a promising future with the man of her dreams. Surrounded by Andrea's friends and family however who openly support the Fascists Lucia senses that sooner rather than later she will have to part ways with her lover - and when Contessa Luisa (Isa Miranda), Andrea's mother, encourages her son to leave Italy behind and seek happiness in neutral Switzerland Lucia's world collapses with a bang.

Beautifully photographed and openly critical of Italian bourgeois culture Gli Sbandati was Maselli's first feature film. In 1955 the picture won the coveted "Best New Director" award at the Venice Film Festival instantaneously placing Maselli amongst Italy's best. In the following years the young writer-director would passionately critique Italy's political elite and complete his most acclaimed work Gli Indifferenti a.k.a A Time of Indifference (1964). (Here）

Northern Italy, near Milan, 1943. In order to escape the bombings of the Second World War, Contessa Luisa, her son Andrea, grandson Carl and Ferruccio, a family friend, search for shelter in a villa close to Milan. The three boys try to pass the time in the best way they can. Only Carlo realizes the tragedy of the situation. The group is soon joined by Lucia, a woman who also seeks refuge and a group of soldiers, escaping from the Germans. Andrea hosts them in the villa during his mothers absence, and soon falls in love with Lucia. But the brave gesture of Andrea provokes Ferruccio: he informs the Germans about what is happening in the villa. The soldiers decide to escape to the mountains using a truck, also taking Lucia, Carlo and Andrea. The mother returns just before their departure, and Andrea, influenced by his mother, refuses to follow his friends. He plans to escape to Switzerland instead. While he sits in the car to begin his journey, he hears the gunshots that are fired on the truck, killing Lucia. (Here）

Le Canzoni di tutti (TV Show) Mario Landi, 1958

by Bob Hendrikx on 09/08/2013:

Notes on LE CANZONI DI TUTTI [TV Shows] [1958]

LE CANZONI DI TUTTI [a series of 7 television shows on Rai Nazionale] [1958]

Authors: Ruggero Maccari [1919-1989], Luciano Salce [1922-1989], Ettore Scola [1931-]
Musical Director: Franco Pisano [1922-1977]
Director: Mario Landi [1920-1992]
Arranger: Ennio Morricone [1928-] [not credited]
Broadcasts: 7 [from January 15, 1958 to February 26, 1958]
www.teche.rai.it/storia/varieta/varieta02.html – Click on "Le canzoni di tutti 1958"

Ennio Morricone [August 2012]: I met Luciano Salce in 1958 while doing arrangements for LE CANZONI DI TUTTI, a television show of which he was one of the authors." http://bit.ly/15wklOr

"Ennio Morricone [aged 29] first met Luciano Salce in a television program written by Scola and Salce, titled LE CANZONI DI TUTTI [1958], where Morricone worked as an arranger. Salce asked him to score two of his theatre comedies, LA PAPPA REALE [1958] and IL LIETO FINE [1959]." http://bit.ly/1bBXgif

"I started by arranging the music of others for television. In the meantime I kept on composing my own music – Variety Show for television LE CANZONI DI TUTTI – Morricone worked with the Quartetto Cetra for Rai Biblioteca di Studio Uno doing arrangements for shows, theatre and drama on TV." http://bit.ly/1aGJsoz

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Director Luciano Salce & Composer Ennio Morricone – See: http://bit.ly/13r1cvA

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Ennio Morricone involved in TV Shows on RAI Television – See: http://bit.ly/14ihKJz

（From here)

MORTE DI UN AMICO ("Death of a Friend") of Franco Rossi, from a screenplay by Pier Paolo Pasolini and others, reveals the strong hand Pasolini in its depiction of life at the geographical, social, economic, and moral edge of Rome. The two heroes (played by Gianni Garko and Spiros Focas) are pimps, like the protagonist of Pasolini's own ACCATTONE. The relationship between Aldo and Bruno and the bourgeois society which rejects them is a complex one. The pimps are both callous and caring; their prostitutes are by turn vindictive and generous. MORTE DI UN AMICO is an unsettling, powerful, and ultimately very moving film from that fertile period of Italian cinema that brought us L'AVVENTURA, ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS, ACCATTONE, and LA DOLCE VITA. (IMDB)

Durante la festa la duchessa si copre di ridicolo per le inevitabili gaffe, ma scopre che il baronetto e suo padre sono in realtà degli impostori. Il fidanzamento va in fumo e la questione finisce in tribunale dove, più per i suoi modi spregiudicati che per le capacità oratorie dell'avvocato, la signora riesce ad avere ragione. La giovane nipote, stanca di ogni velleità aristocratica, torna al suo primo amore, un onesto ragazzo figlio di un pasticciere.(WIKI)