Five portraits of life - a rare quintet that brings you the very quintessence of love...its delights...its delicacies...its humors...its dreams...

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

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Main Cast: Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Totò, Dany Robin, François Périer, Alba Arnova, Andrea Checchi, Alberto Sordi, Maria Denis, Enrico Viarisio

Director: Alessandro Blasetti

Writers: Achille Campanile, Claude-André Puget, Ercole Patti, Sandro Continenza, Anton Germano Rossi, Alessandro Blasetti, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Vasco Pratolini, Alberto Moravia, Marino Moretti, Ennio Flaiano, Silvio D'Arzo, Giorgio Bassani, Giuseppe Marotta, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli

Editor: Mario Serandrei

Cinematographer: Gábor Pogány

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