1993 film by Leone Pompucci

Gianni, a hotel cook, is frustratingly in love with the sexy blonde DJ at the nightclub "John's Fever" but he can't dance. When one of the cook's coworkers draws a mustache and beard on a poster of John Travolta everyone somehow finally notices that Gianni looks exactly like Travolta and the game is on.

Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.

Nina is 13 years old and has an incredibly messy family. She finds herself catapulted from the center of Rome in a suburban neighborhood: grey high-rises, boys on scooters and a funny grandmother who spends all of her time gambling on cards. A sudden encounter upsets everything, like a storm: she is 13 years old, lives in the opposite building, and dances the Lambada. Her name is Sirley, she comes from French Guiana and has an ambitious dream: to interpret the Madonna in the neighborhood procession. Between the two an intense, very strong bond is created. Their friendship will lead Nina to finally lose control, and to discover her place not only in the world, but in the heart of her family.

Luigi Pirandello muore a Roma il 10 dicembre 1936 e nel suo testamento lascia precise disposizioni: «Sia lasciata passare in silenzio la mia morte. Agli amici, ai nemici preghiera non che di parlarne sui giornali, ma di non farne pur cenno. Né annunzi né partecipazioni. Morto, non mi si vesta. Mi s'avvolga, nudo, in un lenzuolo. E niente fiori sul letto e nessun cero acceso. Carro d'infima classe, quello dei poveri. Nudo. E nessuno m'accompagni, né parenti, né amici. Il carro, il cavallo, il cocchiere e basta. Bruciatemi. E il mio corpo appena arso, sia lasciato disperdere; perché niente, neppure la cenere, vorrei avanzasse di me. Ma se questo non si può fare sia l'urna cineraria portata in Sicilia e murata in qualche rozza pietra nella campagna di Girgenti, dove nacqui.» Ma le cose non andarono proprio così....

Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival at the abbey, the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.

A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.

Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.

WWII: When a group of Italian soldiers washes up on a Greek island after the Allies sink their ship, the men initially believe that the region is deserted. However, they discover that the islanders have been in hiding, and the soldiers, winning the trust of the locals, gradually become part of the community. As the Italians ease into an idyllic existence, they begin to forget about war and pursue romance with the lovely women of the island.