Italiani
- Original title
- Italiani
- Year
- 1996
- Running time
- 99 min.
- Country
- Italy
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Giulio Scarpati
- Giuliana de Sio
- María Grazia Cucinotta
- Vanessa Gravina
- Tiziana Lodato
- Marco Leonardi
- Roberto Citran
- Ivano Marescotti
- Fabrizio Accordino
- Lorenzo Crespi
- Claudio Bigagli
- Luigi Maria Burruano
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Romance
- Synopsis
- Ulisse is a conductor on board a train running from Sicily to Milan and back during the 1960s. Every day, as the engines clatter over the rails he observes a wide variety of human dramas unfold. This sentimental and ultimately bitter Italian drama chronicles several such mini-dramas using them to comment upon the sad state of modern Italy. In one episode, a Sicilian woman who is moving northward with her family must choose between two disparate suitors. In another, a businessman attempts to conceal the presence of his mistress from his son. In another, a heart-broken nurse finds brief, passionate solace in the arms of a novelist. Meanwhile Ulisse looks out the window and in one scene sees a train heading back for Sicily. On board are many of the passengers he now attends, but they have all aged 20 years. None have fared well, including Ulisse, and this is meant to mirror Italy's own decline.
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