The Moralist

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.

A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.