During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets Onofrio Principato and Sebastiano Vella, two actors rehearsing a new show with the actors of their amateur dramatics. This meeting brings great surprises.

For Le Genou d'Artemide Jean-Marie Straub once again chose a dialogue by Cesare Pavese. And not just any dialogue, but one that tears open a painful, mystical abyss between love and the one left behind. The film is one single exhilaration and one single rush, a spell and dispersion into nature. It rises from a dark screen and chant to disappear in the woods with the whisper of the wind. It has little to do with what is generally called «cinema». It has one foot in the world beyond. Nature has ten million times the imagination of the most imaginative of artists. (Jean-Marie Straub)

由都灵的Ambrosio公司拍摄于1908年，这是Edward Bulwer-Lytton历史小说诸多改编中的第一部，这部影片大获成就,胜利,凯旋,成果，从此意大利电影就与历史奇观片（historical spectacle)画上了等号。最后九分钟的血色庞贝的毁灭，运用了染色法

戴安娜出生在威尼斯著名的华伦天奴家族，在罗马一个服装店做售货员。她24岁，但成婚,完婚,婚配,嫁娶却已5年了，夫妻感情很好。但丈夫保罗却有点变态。只有听戴安娜叙述与其他男子的激情故事才能激发起他的欲望，这很令戴安娜苦恼。在家族的一次舞会上，一个威尼斯老乡阿尔方斯找到戴安娜，二人起始,开端,肇始,启始热舞，保罗就在不远处死死地盯着。在归家,返家,还家,归宅的车上，戴安娜将舞会的情况告诉了保罗，惹的保罗欲火中烧。