The film recounts a school year, that of a class at the Dante High School in Trieste. The peculiar situation is that the class includes a girl, Edda Marty, the only female in the entire school. Edda uses a ...

During the dramatic days of the armistice, two military friends fall in love with the same girl, Anna, who is being blackmailed by a treacherous Slav. He denounces them to the Germans and threatens to have her father deported if she doesn't marry him. The father ...

1938, Year XVI of the Fascist Era. Giovanni Palatucci, a police officer in his early thirties, arrives in Fiume as commissioner in charge of the Foreigners' Office at the local police headquarters. A Southerner, the son of a lawyer, Giovanni, while not an anti-fascist, is an independent spirit who ...

In a small, impoverished mountain village, there seems to be no hope for the future. There's no work and no money for any kind of business. One day, however, one of the villagers, Guglielmo, who has a wife and ...

The "homecoming" of a former Austro-Hungarian officer. After the First World War, General Paolo Balzeri visits his cousins ​​Piero and Ines in Koper. Among the fragments that unravel along the thread of memory, ...

An island boy (Piero, played by Marcello Mastroianni) falls in love with a beautiful girl from the coast, left without parents at sixteen and with two younger brothers to support. Piero doesn't want to show his feelings, so he ...

We are in Pula in 1947, almost everyone is leaving the city, which with the Paris Peace Treaty will become Yugoslavia. Berto's family, who works in a car repair shop, must decide what to do. Berto, persuaded by his friend Sergio, chooses to stay ...

In 1917, shortly before the Italian offensive began, the patriots of Trieste anxiously awaited the day of liberation. Roberto, married to Cinzia, the daughter of an elderly patriot, was called up for military service. Unwilling to wear the Austrian uniform, he decided to go …

Sergia, a curious and restless teenager, accepts the advances of two boys her age, Max and Fredi, and goes with them on a short vacation to an uninhabited island. The intentions of the two young men, both friends and rivals, are ...

We are in Istria in 1944, when the fascist government of Italy had already fallen and the troops and police forces were disoriented by the situation. In this atmosphere, Tito's partisans marched towards Trieste to gain ground and take the …