Altri Tempi - Zibaldone n. 1 plot
This film consists of eight short stories, which a bookseller (Aldo Fabrizi) envisions as he reads them. In "Ballo Excelsior" a ballet dancer makes the hearts of a number of spectators beat faster. In "Meno di un Giorno", the early love happiness between Matilde and Camillo is cruelly disrupted by a three-hour train delay. In "Il Tamburino Sardo", a drummer becomes the unexpected hero on the battlefield. In "Questione d'Interesse" two farmers argue over a compost heap. In "Idillio", two very young people fall in love. In "Pot-pourri di Canzoni" different music styles are played. In "La Prova di Frine" Mariantonia, who has been accused of murder, is defended by an eccentric lawyer and in "La Morsa" a man pushes his wife to the limit.