A Tale of Five Cities

A Tale of Five Cities (Italian: Passaporto per l'oriente and released as A Tale of Five Women in the US) is a 1951 British-Italian international co-production comedy drama film directed by Romolo Marcellini, Emil E. Reinert, Wolfgang Staudte, Montgomery Tully, Irma von Cube and Géza von Cziffra.

[2] Englishman Bob Mitchell leaves his longtime home in America to enlist in the Royal Air Force.

Lesley’s magazine sponsors a trip for him to visit the five countries where the bank notes were issued, hoping he can find details of his identity.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Don Russell, Jean d'Eaubonne, Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff and Walter Kutz.

Prodigious and original, it accompanies an amnesia victim, formerly an officer in the RAF on an identity-seeking mission to various European capitals, sponsored by an American magazine.