Three Lives and Only One Death

Marcello Mastroianni stars as a man who shares four names and four personalities (which is the real one?). This mysterious figure is the link between four different, yet strangely similar, stories involving love, lust, crime and time. A radio broadcaster narrates a series of remarkable tales from his studio, beginning with the story of travelling salesman Mateo Strano. After a period of twenty years, Strano returns to his first wife Maria to find that she is living with another man... In the next story, a professor at the Sorbonne, Georges Vickers, turns his back on his invalid mother, his home and his job and finds he can earn just as much money as a tramp. He is befriended by a prostitute, Tania, who turns out to be the head of a large company... The third story begins with a couple of newly weds, Martin and Cecile, discovering that they have a mysterious benefactor. The impecunious couple learn that they have inherited a château along with a valet whom they must keep at all costs... Finally, wealthy industrialist Luc Allamand starts to have a mental collapse when the family he invented to impress his clients suddenly enter his life... In an explosive finale, the four main protagonists in these four stories turn out to be fragments of the same man (Marcello Mastroianni). (Cinemax)