Sergio Tofano

Bernardo Bertolucci, along with co-scenarist Gianni Amico, used Dostoievski's 1846, pre-imprisonment novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which they moved to Italy and updated to the pro-Vietcong student-protest present.

Rome, 1800. Rugantino is a fool in love that rages eternal, though he is very unlucky in love stories and fruitful occasions.

Two architects meet some time after World War II and get married. Though they are deeply in love, they come from different backgrounds and do not share the same outlooks on life. Soon she becomes fascinated with his progressive so...