Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries Read More »
Tag Archives: italian
Top Secret AKA Segretissimo (1967) Fernando Cerchio, Gordon Scott, Magda Konopka, Aurora de Alba
A man escapes from a Russian prison and then from a United States embassy, taking with him some very important top secret information from both sides. Read More »
Twenty Thousand Dollars for Every Corpse AKA 20,000 dólares por un cadáver (1971) José María Zabalza, Miguel de la Riva, Dyanik Zurakowska, José Truchado
Dale and Helen Brais are a marriage of farmers who subsist on what little they manage to get from their land. Read More »
Smog (1962) Franco Rossi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori
An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. Read More »
The Girl with a Pistol AKA La ragazza con la pistola (1968) Mario Monicelli, Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave
A Sicilian woman, “dishonored” by her lover, goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him. Read More »
Attack and Retreat AKA Italiani brava gente (1964) Giuseppe De Santis, Arthur Kennedy, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Raffaele Pisu
During the summer of 1941, Germany and its European allies invade the Soviet Union. Read More »
The Passion AKA La passione (2010) Carlo Mazzacurati, Silvio Orlando, Giuseppe Battiston, Kasia Smutniak
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town. Read More »
Acts of the Apostles AKA Atti degli apostoli (1969) Roberto Rossellini, Bradai, Edoardo Torricella, Jacques Dumur
The spread of Christianity, according to Luke’s account, 30 years after the departure of Jesus Read More »
The Demons of St. Petersburg AKA I demoni di San Pietroburgo (2008) Giuliano Montaldo, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Carolina Crescentini, Roberto Herlitzka
St. Petersburg, 1860. A member of the imperial family is assassinated. A few days later, the writer Fëdor Michajlovic Dostoevskij Read More »
Neapolitan Turk (1953) Un turco napoletano
Cocheletti deputy promised to send Don Pasquale, ripe, rich, and fruit and vegetable merchant Sorrento Read More »