Giulia Lazzarini

Childless city folks, Francesca and Pierpaulo, buy a farmhouse near Sienna and settle in for the country life. He writes thrillers, she seems unfulfilled. When she learns that neighbors haven't seen their son, a doctor in Africa, for several years, she offers to care for their aged parents. Paulo is not pleased, but the old couple moves in with them, and a series of skirmishes break out between Paulo and the old man... (imdb)

A director and her brother watch over their dying mother.

At the end of the XIX century in Russia, Prince Dimitri Necklivdov is called as a jury-man in a trial. The defendant is Katiuscia Maslova, accused of murdering a merchant in order to rob him. Dimitri recognizes Katiuscia: she was the girl he seduced many years before. Dimitri decides to save her. (Baldinotto da Pistoia)