The story starts at the point in Benito Mussolini's life when, at the age of nineteen, he gave up being a schoolmaster, left his home town of Forli and, as a guest worker on a building-site in Lausanne, Switzerland, underwent his own personal experience of the darker sides of the capitalist system. The speed with which the rhetorically gifted demagogue manages to assemble whole crowds of friends and followers around him - including above all his "protectress", the enigmatic Russian woman Angelika - is reflected in the speed at which he succeeds in attracting enemies from church and state. His love for the beautiful Eleonora, the daughter of a middle-class family, studying medicine at the University of Geneva - a city where Mussolini himself has been carrying stone around as an unskilled worker - even convinces him to take up studying. When a fatal accident occurs on the building-site - a worker plunges to his death from a badly-secured section of scaffolding - the young student Mussolini calls for a general strike. Arrest and expulsion are the consequences of this first piece of agitation, and it is only the intervention of his influential friend Angelika which saves him from being thrown into jail. But Mussolini is not a man to give up easily. Soon he's successful again, in Trieste, working as editor of the socialist newspaper "L'Avventure del Lavoratore", and a conflict soon arises between himself and the local clergy. This, however, provides the local imperial Austrian authorities with the excuse they need to expel this troublemaker and agitator from the country. Back in his native town of Forlì, Mussolini marries Rachele, his childhood sweetheart. But he's still a long way from settling down into a "bourgeois" lifestyle - he spends far more time with his comrades, and especially the pretty female comrades, than with Rachele and the family. It's not long before Mussolini becomes local chief of the Italian Socialist Party, in which he reveals his secure instinct for power and his talent for intrigue as he plays off various sections of the left against each other. Very soon he's levered his arch-rival Bissolati out of office: in Milan Mussolini becomes editor-in-chief of the country's largest socialist newspaper, "Avanti!". Mussolini exploited the escalation in violence among the country's workers for his own ends. The "reds" - the left-wing Socialists - and the "yellows" - the Republicans - were involved in a bitter war with each other. At the peak of this crisis, however, World War I broke out. While the Italian Nationalists are urging the country to take part in the war, the left wing builds its support on the pacifist strength of the "Socialist International": the workers of Europe must unite against the imperialist warmongers! Now that those in power represent a common enemy, Mussolini - via an adroit move - succeeds in uniting the warring left-wing factions. Although hopes that a united European left will be able to stop the war are soon dashed, Mussolini is now more powerful than ever before. It is at this period of his life that he begins to have growing doubts about neutrality and pacifism being worthy aims for a true revolutionary. Gradually he turns all his allies, even the staunchest ones, into enemies, including his beloved Angelika, by showing a lot of sympathy towards the landowning classes. The last great chapter in the history of Mussolini the socialist is now played out against the backdrop of World War I, and the transformation begins which will eventually lead him to found an entirely different type of socialism altogether - Fascismo. While the pacifists in his party are pressing for neutrality, Mussolini finally allows himself to be "bought" by the Conservative government. The former anti-war campaigner turned opportunist now supports the war. Now he's on his own - and at the turning-point of his political career...

在第二次世界大战尾声，一群由反抗义士组成的杂牌军筹划了一场异想天开的劫案：潜入米兰的法西斯总部，洗劫墨索里尼的珍宝。

1919年，墨索里尼被意大利社会党开除后成立了法西斯党，并迫国王交出权力，墨索里尼成为了意大利集大权于一身的领袖。他的女儿埃达也长成了大姑娘。女儿的个人感情与政治或者是与国家的命运相联系的时候，那就由不得自己了。墨索里尼的女儿与丈夫的爱情成了墨索里尼利益的牺牲品。

二战臭名昭著的意大利纳粹大魔头墨索里尼的传记片，讲述墨索里尼死前四天的故事。

根据导演Franco Zeffirelli本人的早年个人经历改编，讲述二战期间，一群热爱意大利文化艺术的女性在佛罗伦萨和圣吉米尼亚诺的经历，其中包括和墨索里尼喝茶的前英国大使夫人(Maggie Smith饰)、帮雇主照顾私生子卢卡的玛丽(Joan Plowright饰)、艺术热爱者阿拉贝拉(Judi Dench饰)、年轻英国记者康妮(Tessa Pritchard饰)、干练的美国女性乔琪(Lily Tomlin饰)、放浪但好心的美国女性埃尔莎(Cher饰)。战争爆发前，她们常常聚在前大使夫人处，或是在乌菲齐美术馆里喝茶聊天，二战爆发后，她们都被软禁在了古城圣吉米尼亚诺，被她们照顾过的卢卡已经长大，时常前来帮助她们。

二战期间，一群不同文化背景的妇女每天都要到英国驻意大利使馆同大使夫人喝茶，本片讲的就是她们的故事。

该剧讲述了贝尼托·墨索里尼的早期职业生涯：从1919年创建意大利法西斯组织到1924年暗杀政治家贾科莫·马特奥蒂。

该剧讲述了贝尼托·墨索里尼的早期职业生涯：从1919年创建意大利法西斯组织到1924年暗杀政治家贾科莫·马特奥蒂。

1人到中年的口口卡（作者本人），喜欢说自己喜欢和年轻人在一起，但事实上他才不愿意给年轻人镜头呢，他心里说：再来的时候我拿棍子打你出去，调侃时会说别人的摄像机只是一个玩的东西；更多时候谈及的是自己的回忆，他号召所有人脱下自己的裤子，当然这只是一个嚼头；只有他被激怒了他才会批判别人，不然以和为贵吧还是，他信誓旦旦地说，我年轻的时候也想找老虎打打！！！ 　　an middle aged person(the writer) like to say being with youth. 　　but infact he doesnt want to camera to youth, he thought: I would beat you if you come again. 　　when people's chatting, camera is just a toy for fun, more for record memory, he ask people to take off pains of course just a joke, only he was anger he would criticize others, or being peacefully.he said frankly: I want to beat tiger when I was young. 　　2剧情简介： 有位老师和我说：他喜欢疯狂的纪录片，那么我觉得不错，我来拍你试试。 我把镜头对准了刚刚获奖的几位纪录片导演，我尝试表达相反的意见“你的纪录片不好！”那么他们有什么反应呢？ 纪录片作者总是把镜头对准别人，那么我来试一试把镜头对准他们自己，果然他们不喜欢。 我仿佛看到了我脆弱而又单纯的雄性老年，但愿能以此片随时警醒我自己。 　　導演闡述： 　　A拍摄者只有有被拍摄的经历才能了解摄像机的残酷力量 　　所以对于拍摄者，被拍摄是第一课 　　B幻觉无处不在，藏在各处，艺术就是这种幻觉， 　　当我们明白赞美比批评更容易让孩子进步这个规则时，我们已经变老、我们泛滥地利用这个法则， 　　你藏匿在你的中年朋友中、互相赞美，形成幻觉，不如说你也就此生活在幻觉中颁奖时刻、演讲时刻、掌声、做爱、愤怒、严肃而紧张，批判的不真实、名声、荣誉、财富造成了大量幻觉， 　　我们藏匿在其中，不如说你也就此生活在幻觉中 　　让我带你们去有深度的地方，看看你是否迷失在有幻觉的深度上，还是根本就是肤浅的人。 　　C本片是在拍摄完成后才计划制作的，之前没有任何计划 　　Director’s Statement: 　　1shooters know the cruet strenth of camera, only through being shooted. 　　so to shooters, being shooted is their first lesson. 　　2illusion in every where, art is that kind of illusion. 　　when we understood a principle that praise kids is better than critisize them for improving. we were getting old, we abuse this . 　　you hide in middle age friends, praise to each other and illusion come into being. so why should say we are living in illusion. 　　illusion of time of reward, time of speech, applaud, having sex, anger, tension, untrue criticize, fame, honor, fortune,we are in it, why cant say you are in it too.let me take you to a place, to see whether you lose your illusion or not, or you are just boring person 　　3no scripture before shooting.