The Widower: Goodbye Elvira

The villa of Elvira Almiraghi ( Francesca Valeri) is Villa Chigi. It is a historic country residence of the Chigi counts. The entrance is at 24 Via di Villa Chigi. The villa's large garden survived a series of sales, allotments and constructions and is now a municipal public park of about 5 hectares, Other entrances to the park are at Via Valnerina and Via Niccolò Piccinni.

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Plot:

In 1959 Dino Risi, one of the greatest exponents of the great Italian comedy, directed one of his most famous and successful films, Il vedovo (The Widower), the third collaboration between the director of Poveri ma belli and the legendary Roman actor Alberto Sordi, who here plays the role of a penniless and not particularly capable industrialist, incessantly taunted by his "better half."

Alberto Nardi is a Roman industrialist married to the very wealthy Elvira Almiraghi, a savvy businesswoman who tyrannizes him and constantly holds his inability to handle money against him. But then, by a fatal chance, the train on which Elvira is traveling has an accident, and among the passengers there are no survivors; Alberto, convinced that he has become a widower, goes on a rampage, until his wife reappears...