In the figure of Ettore Zambrini, a small industrialist with a dream of opening a factory overlooking the Autostrada del Sole, Montaldo offers us an effective narrative transposition of the ‘animal spirits’ that governed the economic boom in Italy at the time. He is a character of contradictory humanity: capable of handling business, overdue bills, trade union relations, marital betrayal, but also the passion that binds him to his wife with equal unscrupulousness.
Length 96 minutes
Renato Salvatori | Norma Bengell | Nino Segurini | Marina Malfatti | Dino Fontanesi | Raffaele Triggia | Iginio Marchesini | Gino Agostini | Enrico Rame | Brenno Baratella | Antonio Domenighini | Alberto Masini | Vito Cipolla | Celso Fave | Carlo Asinari | Gino Cassani | Anna Maria Crocioni | Mario Fiore | Umberto Julli | Florence Nova | Gabriella Pellegrini | Loris Serra | Luciano Serra | Antonietta Righi