France, 12th century. Belian, a young blacksmith, is forced to flee his homeland. He joins a group of crusaders led by his father. In one of the battles he is severely wounded and before his death he ordains his son a knight.
After a tremendous victory on the battlefield, lost in a dense forest, Lords Washizu and Miki meet a mysterious prophetic old woman who foretells a great future for Washizu, and an even greater one for Miki's descendants. Once out of the forest, they do indeed receive a summons and honorable appointments from the emperor. Wasizu, instigated by his ambitious wife, plans to go beyond the old sorceress' predictions.
A typical American living room of a New England home. Its occupants have changed throughout the century. In the 1950s, a boy named Richard was born here. This room is where he spent his childhood and adolescence, where he graduates from high school, and where he brings his fiancée Margaret into the house. The young family is having children, all the happiest moments of their lives take place here, and here are the sad ones. The children get grandchildren, and Richard and Margaret begin to realize that their time is passing.
1950. In the home of a wealthy Neapolitan family, a luxurious carriage-bed was delivered straight from Versailles for a baby about to be born right in the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea. A girl was born, and she was named Partenope in honor of the ancient Greek nymph whose name was once called Naples. Perfect in everything the girl lived to the fullest: changed lovers and hobbies, tried to start a career as an actress, studied to be an anthropologist and danced until morning. The brilliant life of the favorite of fate overshadowed only one event - the suicide of his brother Raphael, faded in the rays of bright Partenope.
Observations on the life of African Americans in the urban ghetto on behalf of a quiet, inconspicuous man, Stan, who works in a slaughterhouse to feed his family. He is a hardworking and honest man, but his inability to reconcile with the world around him pushes him to the edge of the abyss...
Small black criminals dared to commit a brazen crime: they stole 300 thousand dollars from an Italian gangster and are now on the run. Two policemen take up the case - a corrupt cop and his young black partner. Only one question remains, who will be the first to get to the thieves: the servants of the law or the mafia.
He obeyed no rules, for he was made to break them. After the death of his master, the servant William decides on a desperate adventure. The young man manages to change his lineage and, having appropriated the armor and weapons of his departed master, appears before the public as the young and generic knight Ulrich von Lichtenstein. Now in his new capacity he will have to prove his noble origin at knightly tournaments with lance and sword. Sir William's courage and determination hardened in countless battles. But as a final test to the ardent heart of the great impostor sent passionate love, which is able to knock out of the saddle the most intrepid warrior ...
