In the director's version by Roman Gabria based on the comedy by J.-B. Molière's action is transferred to Sicily in the second half of the last century and is certainly devoid of the mystical intensity of the old baroque plot (however, perhaps this is only at first glance?). The associative series of the directors will be associated not so much with the theater as with the Italian cinema of those years, with neorealism: Roberto Rossellini - Luchino Visconti - Vittorio de Sica - Michelangelo Antonioni ...