Two bachelors pretend to be Ernest Worthing--who doesn't exist--in order to court two young women. Their plan begins to unravel when the women find out about each other.
The ancieint Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set against the background of twentieth-century Brazilian Carnival celebration and sultry bossa nova beats.
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.
