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In 1930s Italy a bumbling Jewish waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. But that life is threatened by World War II.
In 1939, Guido, an Italian Jew, falls in love with Dora, who isn't Jewish. He woos her away from the Fascist official she has been dating, and they get married. Their son Giosue grows up among growing...
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"Chronicles the life of secret police functionary Marcello Clerici ... who is sent on a mission to assassinate his former teacher, Professor Quadri ... a leftist activist in exile in Paris. Clarici uses his honeymoon with new wife Giulia ... as a cover for the job. But he soon becomes entranced by Quadri's sensuous, haunted wife Anna ... and the fascist tenets he once accepted without question being to waver in his mind."--
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It is the Night of San Lorenzo, the night when dreams come true. While watching shooting stars, Cecilia tells her son about a similar night in 1944, when she was six years old, and the residents of San Martino, her small Tuscan hometown, struggled against Nazi oppression during the final days of WWII.