Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
Director : Franco Rossi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Mauro Bolognini
Writer : Bernardino Zapponi, Fabio Carpi, Furio Scarpelli, Roberto Gianviti, Enzo Muzii, Luigi Magni, Agenore Incrocci, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Cesare Zavattini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi
Cast
Silvana Mangano
Annie Girardot
Francisco Rabal
Massimo Girotti
Véronique Vendell
Elsa Albani