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Dir: Carmine Gallone

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Dir: Carmine Gallone

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Lyda is a prostitute with no education and no hope for the future. Unfortunately, this ungrateful job leads her to have an unwanted pregnancy, and once born the child abandons her.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

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Dir: Carmine Gallone

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Epic, melodramatic and rather risque adaptation of the British novel about ancient Roman decadence, culminates in the eruption of a nearby volcano.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

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Dir: Carmine Gallone

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Thea is sculptor who is diagnosed with tuberculosis before she marries Filippo. After abandoning him, her health begins to decline. She organizes a final party, inviting along her estranged husband.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Naked Truth perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

In Naples singing tourist guide Giovanni falls for widowed socialite Claire. They have an affair and travel to Germany hoping that he might become an opera singer. But Giovanni can't cope with Claire's constant flirts with other men.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

An unemployed youth pretends to be the long lost son of an elderly industrialist but after helping the man with his business decides to confess his dishonesty and go away.