light up and whisper arousing dialogue. Taking pride in his many inventions, Katzone celebrates his 10,000th conquest with an eccentric party that involves the blowing out of 10,000 candles and a performance by his wife, in which she sucks coins and pearls into her vagina by means of telekinesis. During the party, Snàporaz comes across his ex-wife, Elena, who has a drunken argument with him, and meets Donatella again. The police (composed solely of women dressed in Nazi attire) arrive, interrupting Katzone mid-song and announcing the imminent demolition of his house. They also inform him that they have shot his most beloved dog, Italo, which a grieving Katzone buries. Meanwhile, Snàporaz dances to a song by Fred Astaire with a scantily clad Donatella and a friend of hers, but he fails to sleep with either of them, instead getting stuck in bed with his ex-wife. Hearing strange noises, he crawls under the bed, entering another dream-like world in which he slides down a toboggan, revisiting his childhood crushes (a sitter, a nurse, a prostitute) along the way. Caged at the end of the slide, he is transported before a strange court and judged for his masculinity. Dismissed and set free, he climbs into a towering boxing ring before a female crowd. At the top of the ring, he boards a hot air balloon in the form of Donatella. Donatella herself fires at him from below with a machine-gun, bursting the balloon and sending Snàporaz plummeting. Snàporaz wakes up on the very same train from the beginning of the film, indicating the entire story has been a mere nightmare. Just as he comes to this conclusion, he realizes his glasses are broken (as in his dream) and that the wagon is filled by the women that crowded his dream. The train races into a tunnel as the film ends. Cast Marcello Mastroianni as Snàporaz Anna Prucnal as Elena Bernice Stegers as Woman on train Donatella Damiani as Donatella (Woman on roller skates) Iole Silvani as Motorcyclist Ettore Manni as Dr. Xavier Katzone Fiammetta Baralla as Onlio Hélène G. Calzarelli as Feminist Isabelle Canto de Maya Catherine Carrel as Commandant Stéphane Emilfork as Feminist Marcello Di Falco as Slave Silvana Fusacchia as Skater Gabriella Giorgelli as Fishwoman of San Leo Sylvie Meyer as Feminist Dominique Labourier as Feminist Marina Confalone as Feminist Marina Hedman as Girl of 'Giro della Morte' Critical reception