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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