This anthology of short films from five major European directors exemplifies the late-sixties phenomenon that saw the superstar-director omnibus film trend -- exemplified in the earlier part of the decade by the Fellini/De Sica/Monicelli/Visconti Boccaccio '70 or the Rossellini/Pasolini/Godard/Gregoretti RoGoPaG -- recruited for radical left-wing ends in such projects as Loin du Vietnam.