Nothing Left to Do But Cry

In 2006 a DVD edition was released with a new extensive version of the film, longer of 18 minutes to present a greater development of the Astriaha character.

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.

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.

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.

Driven by an unstoppable enthusiasm, they try to propose the knowledge of modern inventions such as the train, the thermometer, electricity and traffic lights; as Leonardo seemingly struggles to understand their confused descriptions, the two must reduce themselves to explain him 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 Colombus' ships.

Convinced that they have returned to the 20th 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.

Disconsolated, Saverio reveals to Mario the real reason why he wanted to stop the navigator: his sister has fallen in love with an American soldier at the NATO base in Pisa, whom he consider an imbecile.

The two comedians, halfway through the film, had shot so much superfluous material that they were forced to erase some episodes, such as the one that should have their common friend Marco Messeri in the role of Savonarola.

Benigni and Troisi made him pronounce scurrilous things about Amanda Sandrelli's mother, Stefania, an actress then in vogue.

The scene of the meeting with Leonardo da Vinci has filmed on the banks of the Pellicone pond, near Vulci, in the Lazio Maremma, inside the Etruscan archaeological area of the same name.