Arquivo

Gathered in an immense ballroom, are representatives of human behavior: rich bourgeois, disappointed workers, priestesses of dance, and virtuous gentlemen. With their passions, weaknesses, and hopes, they go the night through in a continuous, involving dance. As the music plays, they give vent to feeling and dissimulate desire. In metaphor, Ettore Scola describes the history of Europe in the period from the thirties until the sixties. Winner of the Silver Bear at the 1984 Berlin Film Festival.