Questa nostra Italia

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy.

The nun tells the priest about her past and then a long flashback begins...

A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.