Domenica d'agosto: The starting block
0 Italy
The bar from which, at the beginning of the film, the group of cyclists leaves for Ostia and of which Enrico (Interlenghi) is part is in Via delle Fornaci 9 in Rome.
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PLOT
The Ostia lido, on any Sunday in the month of August. People from different walks of life head to the beach to escape the city heat. Over the course of the day, everyone's destinies are fulfilled: an unemployed man becomes a robber and is arrested, a girl and her suitor, after having deceived each other, discover they are poor and not millionaires as they had tried to pretend, a rich lady discovers that his apartment burned down.