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July 1944. San Miniato, Italy, is occupied by the Nazis. Paolino, the local tailor, receives a visit of the SS officer Rudolf Schmidt, who commissioned him a suit. One day, Lucia enters his shop. She is as friend of Paolino and a Partisan courier. She and Mauro, a friend of Paolino and the Partisan leader, will get married and she wants a new suit for Mauro. Lucia is captured and killed by Rudolf Schmidt. Now, it is up to Paolino, the tailor of the Nazis, to make an important choice...
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Released
Original Language
IT
Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home.