In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power.

Ciottoli是一名记者，他的职业生涯毫无前途，负债累累，还有一个想让他死的暴徒。出乎意料的是，他赢得了国家彩票（近250万欧元），并试图保持一致，将中奖者的股票隐藏在打字机里。具有讽刺意味的是，他的导演命令他写一篇关于这位神秘获胜者的文章。当他回到家时，他发现所有的家具都被没收了，并将进行公开拍卖。他会拼命想买回那台毫无价值的打字机，而他之前的所有问题都还在继续，尤其是那个暴徒。。。

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!

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