A sun-drenched Rome on 15 August is the lively setting for the events that involve three characters, all played by Carlo Verdone.
Long preparation precedes Enzo’s appointment with Sergio (Renato Scarpa) at the “palo della morte”: he intends to travel with his friend to Poland, behind the Iron Curtain, in search of carnal relationships easily won for the price of a biro or nylons. The electricity pylon in via Giovanni Conti, in the Vigne Nuove suburb north of Rome, was removed some time ago, but the subsidized housing projects with their unmistakeable cement cylinders are still there. Sergio falls ill shortly after setting off, while they are in the car on the Cassia Bis, and his friend takes him to the Hospital of San Gallicano in Trastevere. This does not, however, stop Enzo who manages to find a new travelling companion, “Martucci’s friend”, whom he meets in piazzale dei Partigiani, outside Ostiense station.
The film’s second main character, the hippie Ruggero, lives in a commune of free love. While in the city, begging in via Luigi Petroselli, piazza della Bocca della Verità in the background, he meets his father (Mario Brega) who convinces him to come for coffee with his girlfriend Fiorenza (Isabella De Bernardi): on the way he stops at a phone box to make a short call near the Cestia Pyramid and Porta San Paolo.
We meet Leo as he is crossing the road: at the junction between via della Lungara and via Garibaldi in Trastevere (facing Porta Settimiana which features again during the end credits) he is hit by a car, dropping his shopping with bottles of oil spilling onto the road. Nearby, the boy meets Marisol (Veronica Miriel), a Spanish tourist looking for the Youth Hostel. Both the Hostel and the house where he lives with his mother are located near piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere. The deserted zoo that Leo visits with Marisol is the Bioparco of Rome.
A sun-drenched Rome on 15 August is the lively setting for the events that involve three characters, all played by Carlo Verdone.
Long preparation precedes Enzo’s appointment with Sergio (Renato Scarpa) at the “palo della morte”: he intends to travel with his friend to Poland, behind the Iron Curtain, in search of carnal relationships easily won for the price of a biro or nylons. The electricity pylon in via Giovanni Conti, in the Vigne Nuove suburb north of Rome, was removed some time ago, but the subsidized housing projects with their unmistakeable cement cylinders are still there. Sergio falls ill shortly after setting off, while they are in the car on the Cassia Bis, and his friend takes him to the Hospital of San Gallicano in Trastevere. This does not, however, stop Enzo who manages to find a new travelling companion, “Martucci’s friend”, whom he meets in piazzale dei Partigiani, outside Ostiense station.
The film’s second main character, the hippie Ruggero, lives in a commune of free love. While in the city, begging in via Luigi Petroselli, piazza della Bocca della Verità in the background, he meets his father (Mario Brega) who convinces him to come for coffee with his girlfriend Fiorenza (Isabella De Bernardi): on the way he stops at a phone box to make a short call near the Cestia Pyramid and Porta San Paolo.
We meet Leo as he is crossing the road: at the junction between via della Lungara and via Garibaldi in Trastevere (facing Porta Settimiana which features again during the end credits) he is hit by a car, dropping his shopping with bottles of oil spilling onto the road. Nearby, the boy meets Marisol (Veronica Miriel), a Spanish tourist looking for the Youth Hostel. Both the Hostel and the house where he lives with his mother are located near piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere. The deserted zoo that Leo visits with Marisol is the Bioparco of Rome.
Three stories set in a sun-drenched Rome on 15 August (the Ferragosto holiday): Enzo convinces his reluctant friend Sergio to travel to Poland; Leo takes a Spanish tourist home, while his mother waits for him in Ladispoli; Ruggero, a hippie living in a free-love commune, meets his father who tries to convince him to come home.
