Venezia, spring of 1866, in the last days of the Austrian occupation. Read More »
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Almost a Man (1966) Vittorio De Seta, Jacques Perrin, Lea Padovani, Gianni Garko
Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal Read More »
Fortini/Cani (1976) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Franco Fortini, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà
The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini’s book ‘I Cani del Sinai’. Read More »
The Prince of Homburg (1997) Marco Bellocchio, Andrea Di Stefano, Barbora Bobulova, Toni Bertorelli
The Prince of Homburg, disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge in battle against the Swedes, which leads to victory. Read More »
Rossini! Rossini! (1991) Mario Monicelli, Philippe Noiret, Jacqueline Bisset, Sergio Castellitto
Rossini! Rossini! is a 1991 Italian biographical film written and directed by Mario Monicelli. Read More »
Shun Li and the Poet (2011) Andrea Segre, Tao Zhao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia Read More »
Workers, Peasants (2001) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Angela Nugara, Giacinto Di Pascoli, Gianpaolo Cassarino
A group of men and women of all generations have been brought together in the course of their travels after World War II Read More »
Night Sun (1990) Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Massimo Bonetti
Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king’s mistress Read More »
The General of the Dead Army (1983) Luciano Tovoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Michel Piccoli
In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general Read More »
The Age of the Medici (1972) Roberto Rossellini
This is a lengthy exposition of the social and political history of renaissance Florentine history Read More »