may 1938. hitler in italy . preparation for historical appointment with mussolini . emotion and tension and form of self affirmation . a empty town and a housewife and a journalist . the meeting of two different world . refuge for a mother with a sad life . short filling for a classical victim . a story about solitude and silence . about the form of of life nook and desire like fight form . the great character a book gift in a spring afternoon . this movie be a poem and remarkable for the art to describe the shade of common loneliness . a pleading for a ineffable relation with reality . and with your interior world . the picture of il duce and the clumsiness of antonietta and the patience and the frailty tension of gabriele and the art of director to give the sense of script grace two great actor make this film sublime and foretaste of subtle delicacy and a wonderful film about hypocrisy and arbitrary verdict and about essence of life and repulsiveness of any tyranny . loren and mastroianni be the master of a magnificent intelligent act . a clear masterpiece .