
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Genres:

Aldo Fabrizi as Book peddler (segment "Il carrettino dei libri vecchi")

Mario Riva as Picky Customer (segment "Il carrettino dei libri vecchi")

Arnoldo Foà as Tuscan farmer (segment "Questione d'interesse")

Paolo Stoppa as Guido's father (segment "L'Idillio")

Amedeo Nazzari as Andrea Fabbri (segment "La morsa")

Gina Lollobrigida as Mariantonia Desiderio (segment "Il processo di Frine")

Vittorio De Sica as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")

Marisa Merlini as Lady in the open car (segment "Il carrettino dei libri vecchi")

Elio Pandolfi as The groom (segment "Pot-pourri di canzoni")

Enzo Staiola as Son of the newsagent (segment "Il carrettino dei libri vecchi")

Galeazzo Benti as l'amante della signora

Luigi Cimara as il signore nell'auto scoperta

Pina Renzi as l'edicolante

Alba Arnova as Matilde

Andrea Checchi as Camillo

Vittorio Vaser as il capitano

Enzo Cerusico as il tamburino

Folco Lulli as contadino

Rina Morelli as la madre di Guido

Sergio Tofano as il nonno di Guido

Maurizio Di Nardo as Guido

Geraldina Parrinello as Filli

Elisa Cegani as Giulia Fabbri

Roldano Lupi as Antonio Serra

Barbara Florian as la sposa

Elena Altieri as la moglie del maggiore

Silvio Bagolini as la guida al santuario

Arturo Bragaglia as il pubblico ministero

Vittorio Caprioli as il marito di Mariantonia

Anna Carena as Teresa, la domestica

Bruno Corelli as il cameriere

Clely Fiamma as la canzonettista

Giovanni Grasso as il presidente del tribunale

Dante Maggio as primo testimone

Carlo Mazzarella as quarto testimone

Jone Morino as Maddalena, la zia di Guido

Umberto Sacripante as terzo testimone

Attilio Tosato as il sergente

Antonio Acqua as

Oscar Andriani as

Armando Annuale as

Aldo Bettoni as

Annamaria Bugliari as

Manlio Busoni as

Mirza Capanna as

Gian Luca Cortese as

Salvatore Costa as

Pietro Di Falco as

Marisa Finiani as

Olga Vittoria Gentilli as

André Hildebrand as

Mario Mazza as

Carlo Mazzoni as

Luigi Moneta as

Filippo Morucci as

Turi Pandolfini as

Amalia Pellegrini as

Dina Perbellini as

Pina Piovani as

Dino Raffaelli as

Giuseppe Ricagno as

Goliarda Sapienza as

Ugo Sasso as

Gustavo Serena as

Antonio Thellung as

Gondrano Trucchi as

Aldo Vasco as
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