Stefania Spugnini

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.

Dir. Dino Risi · With Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli

Oronzo Canà is called to coach Longobarda, the football team of a small town of Northern Italy, newly promoted to the First Division. His only task is not to be relegated, but Longobarda's owner plots against him, finding the team's current ranking far too expensive, and his top Brazilian striker is affected by a deep saudade.

Dir. Sergio Martino · With Lino Banfi, Camillo Milli, Andrea Roncato

The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.

Dir. Sergio Martino · With Lino Banfi, Biagio Izzo, Giuliana Calandra