Non ci resta che piangere (English: Nothing Left to Do But Cry) is a 1984 Italian fantasy comedy film written, directed and starring Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi.
Plot
Tuscan countryside. The janitor Mario and the teacher Saverio are stopped at a level crossing, waiting for the train to pass. The two are friends and trust each other. Among other things, Saverio is worried about his sister Gabriella, who fell into depression for the failure of her relationship with an American boy. The wait continues and decide to travel a road in the fields. After a while they remain in cream with the car in the middle of the countryside. You do evening, it rains. The two find accommodation in an inn for the night, in a room that already hosts another person.
The next morning as soon as they wake up they see, having fun, the guest urinating from the window, but their laughter are immediately truncated by the hiss of a spear that kills him. Mario and Saverio see fonding people in the black cloak on horseback, rush to the ground floor and find other people, dressed in a very strange way. Increducts make themselves be said by a man where they find themselves and discover that they are fried, an imaginary Tuscan village, in 1492. considering it first a terrible joke, they must resign themselves to the harsh reality making themselves hosting from Vitellozzo, the brother of the killed man, Remigio, who tells them of a terrible feud with such a Giuliano del Capecchio, who is exterminating his family. Once in the village they know Parisina, a mother of Vitellozzo and the late Remigio and begin to work in their slaughter shop.
In the Renaissance context of the village, the most disparate episodes happen. Saverio immediately seems comfortable, while Mario does not want to settle down; Soon, however, during a religious function, Mario makes the acquaintance of Pia, a girl of a rich family, with whom he begins to see himself looking out from the surrounding wall of her house. In the meantime, Vitellozzo is arrested and Saverio and Mario write a letter to Girolamo Savonarola in vain to obtain his liberation.
Saverio (who continues to tell Mario to ask Pia if he has an friend to introduce him) does not hide a certain annoyance for the meetings between Mario and the young Pia and complains that he always remains and only him to work in the butcher shop. Driven by his political-intellectual ardor, he convinces his friend to travel to Spain, in order to reach Christopher Columbus and dissuade him from leaving for the Indies and discovering America, so that, in the future, his sister cannot meet the American boy who left her. In an unspecified place the two come across a beautiful Amazon, Astriaha, which intimidates them by throwing an arrow against their wagon.
At this point the story differs depending on the version, standard or extended.
Standard version
In France, Mario and Saverio come across Leonardo da Vinci, and driven by an unstoppable enthusiasm try to propose the knowledge of current inventions but given their own ignorance and the distance from the knowledge of the genius, starting from the train, the thermometer, the Electricity and the traffic light, the two then must resign themselves to explain the game of the broom.
In a tavern the two meet Astriaha, who tells them that the task of her was to prevent the arrival in Spain of any foreigner, to guarantee the departure of Colombo ships. At these words the two remain stunned: "Columbus has already left?!" they rush to the ocean without seeing the caravels at all.
The two try to return to Italy and with amazement they see the smoke of a locomotive. Convinced that they have returned to the twentieth century, they reluctantly discover that the driver is Leonardo, who treasured their teachings and, seeing their disappointment, reassures them on the proceeds of the deal to be divided into equal parts : «Have Mercy! Thirty-three, thirty-three and thirty-three!».
Extended version
In the editing of the scene, the meeting with Leonardo is anticipated to make the events that concern Astriaha.
